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Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report released Thursday stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in 2025 for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, based on labor statistics.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the GOP this week for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill 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 unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers undercut the wages of US workers.

The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an request for information.