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The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this period, while his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas covering workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals 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 host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of US workers.

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