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The former president’s family business increased its hiring of foreign workers on short-term work permits this year, while his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis published Thursday stated.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The number of applications for temporary work visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to available data.

The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

Overall, the business aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Notably, Trump was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers lower the pay of American employees.

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