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The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed.

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 US president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of applications for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, clerks, housekeepers, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in more than 100 foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization sought to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

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

“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he stated to a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.

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