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The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released recently claimed.

According to information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the business sought to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot 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 have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.

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