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The former president’s family business increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

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