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Donald Trump’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report published Thursday claimed.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers 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 questioned by some in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions 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 missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the wages of US workers.

The White House refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.