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The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released Thursday claimed.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the record 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 attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.

The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

In total, the Trump Organization sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five 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 lower the wages of US workers.

The White House declined a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an inquiry.