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The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees 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 over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.

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