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Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this year, while his government was creating barriers for other businesses wanting to do the identical, a report released recently claimed.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the organization, and up from over 120 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had attempted to hire more than 100 foreign employees for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to available data.

The revelation comes amid a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has involved the implementation of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during the upcoming year.

Notably, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for comments justifying the need for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend billions to construct a facility, 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 doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the wages of American employees.

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