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Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses wanting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.

According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and farm workers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and increased from over 120 in the previous term, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth time 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 labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the presidency, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend billions 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 making their missiles. It isn’t feasible that effectively,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.

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