🔗 Share this article Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Almost 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed. Based on data from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia. The number of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data. The revelation comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists. Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year. Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles. “You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees. The White House refused a request for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.