🔗 Share this article Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025 The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed. Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia. The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on available data. The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year. Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions. “You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a host after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees. The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.