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Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up 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 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.

Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to build a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of US workers.

The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.