🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Sought to Bring In Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed. Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery. The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended. It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics. The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. In total, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025. Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles. “You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers. The White House refused a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.