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Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released Thursday claimed.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

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

The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ over 560 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.

The administration declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.