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Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report published Thursday claimed.

According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had attempted to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and reporters.

Overall, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this week for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.

The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.