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The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, a report published recently stated.

According to data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.

Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is coming in, going to invest billions to build a plant, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that foreign workers lower the pay of US workers.

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