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The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday claimed.

According to information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a crackdown 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 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for comments defending the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster 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 she suggested that overseas employees lower the pay of American employees.

The White House declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.