The President of the United States of America has announced that he is temporarily suspending immigration into the US as part of his ways of dealing w
The President of the United States of America has announced that he is temporarily suspending immigration into the US as part of his ways of dealing with the coronavirus which has seen the death rate sky rocket to over 42,000 with over 798,742 cases confirmed in the country.
“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!” he tweeted.
National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, called the suspension “a temporary issue” and said he didn’t know how long it would last.
Trump had earlier imposed broad travel restrictions on China, Europe, Canada and Mexico to curb the virus’s spread, and the State Department last month temporarily suspended routine visa services at embassies and consulates The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has also already suspended routine in-person services, but is still offering some emergency services.
Trump’s tweet raised the prospect of an order freezing all new applications from foreigners to live and work in the U.S., potentially shutting down the legal immigration system as the president and his advisers have already restricted international travel and long pushed to close borders to entry of undocumented migrants. Whether he’ll consider certain exemptions is unclear — the administration has worked recently to still allow farm workers in from Mexico, for instance.
At the same time, the White House has ordered Federal Agencies to begin preparing to return workers to offices and begun to reopen parts of the country, despite a widespread shortage of testing and warnings of a second wave. The president has often said the pandemic has strengthened his desire to further restrict access to the U.S., and even to manufacture certain products on home soil.China rejects call for probe into coronavirus response
