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Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and farm workers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after it was implied that foreign workers lower the wages of American employees.

The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.