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Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.

According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and farm workers was the record submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the business aimed to hire 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was questioned by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.

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