Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.
Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.
The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.
It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.
The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.
In total, the business aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.
Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.
“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.
The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.
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