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The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this period, while his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of requests for temporary work visas for staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and farm workers was the record filed by the company, and increased from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire more than 100 overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and reporters.

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

Significantly, Trump was questioned by certain in the GOP this week for comments defending the need for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is coming in, going to spend billions to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.

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