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Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.

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 US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and reporters.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.

The administration declined a request for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.