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President Trump revealed late Monday he will quickly sign an executive order “to briefly suspend immigration into the United States,” in what seemed a drastic escalation of his efforts to eliminate the coronavirus pandemic and improve the economy.
The declaration came hours after U.S. equity markets plunged, with oil rates turning unfavorable for the first time in history. On Monday, three states– Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina– revealed strategies to start resuming some companies.
” In light of the attack from the Invisible Opponent, along with the need to safeguard the jobs of our FANTASTIC American People, I will be signing an Executive Order to momentarily suspend migration into the United States!” the president tweeted.
The exact contours of the president’s scheduled executive order were not instantly clear. The White Home did not immediately elaborate on Trump’s tweeted announcement.
Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Arizona, applauded the policy, and recommended it ought to continue indefinitely. “Thank you, @realDonaldTrump!” he composed. “All migration to the United States need to halt up until every American who desires a job has one!”
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., on the other hand, stated Trump was trying to find “someone to blame for his own failure.”
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” Immigration has nearly stopped and the US has even more cases than any other country,” Beyer wrote, without adjusting his statistic to consider the bigger population in the United States. ” This is just xenophobic scapegoating.”
Added Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif.: “Trump stopped working to take this crisis seriously from day 1. His desertion of his function as president has actually cost lives. And now, he’s shamelessly politicizing this pandemic to double down on his anti-immigrant agenda. Enough, Mr. President. The American people are fed up.”
Due to the pandemic, almost all visa processing by the State Department, including immigrant visas, has actually been suspended for weeks.
The U.S. just recently agreed with both Canada and Mexico to extend border limitations on inessential travel for another 30 days, through May 16 and May 19, respectively. And, the president currently has obstructed most travel from other hotspots, including the majority of Europe, Iran, South Korea, and China.
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Nevertheless, people with short-lived work visas, students and company travelers were exempted, in addition to emergency workers.
More than 750,000 Americans have come down with COVID-19 and more than 42,000 have actually died. On Monday, the U.S. federal government stated it will continue to rapidly expel migrants it encounters along the border with Mexico for at least another month in reaction to the COVID-19 break out.
Jeanette Vizguerra wears a face mask throughout a vehicle protest calling for the release of detainees at the GEO Immigration Detention Center since of the risks positioned by the new coronavirus Friday, April 17, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski).
Under the U.S. policy modification spurred by the virus, the U.S. federal government has sent out some 10,000 Mexicans and Central Americans back to Mexico, according to data from the U.S.Border Patrol.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that more than 100 migrants at 25 detention centers have actually evaluated positive for COVID-19
Months later, Biden said he supported the China travel restriction.
