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The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

The administration refused a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an inquiry.