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The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, 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, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 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 “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.

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