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

Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term concluded.

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

The revelation coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the implementation of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the actions of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, Trump was criticized by some in the GOP this period for comments defending the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to fill particular roles.

“You cannot just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in 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 overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

The administration declined a inquiry for response, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an request for information.