🔗 Share this article Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday stated. Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia. The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth time in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics. The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists. Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year. Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles. “You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees. The administration declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.