Covid-19: Trump plans to suspend immigration to protect American jobs
Days after the US government allowed applicants for H-1B visas to
continue in the country, President Donald Trump on
Tuesday announced a temporary suspension of immigration into 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!,” the US President
wrote in a Twitter post.
Details
of Trump's executive order were not immediately known. He also did not indicate
when he will sign such an order. While Trump talked about suspending
immigration visa, the H-1B visa, which is more popular among Indian IT professionals,
is a non-immigrant visa. But his reasoning that he needs to protect jobs of
American citizens indicates that non-immigrant work visas too might be on his
target.
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