Thread: Trump Temporarily Suspends All Immigration Into The United States

Trump Temporarily Suspends All Immigration Into The United States

April 20, 2020

Tyler Darden

In a stunning turn of events, late on Monday, president Trump tweeted that "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!"




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Donald J. Trump



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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!

10:06 PM · Apr 20, 2020·Twitter for iPhone


As some noted, Trump's decision to escalate the US response to the coronacrisis is at odds with his desire to rush in reopening the country:


And while we wait for more details, we wonder if this executive order will be followed by Trump canceling the November elections.

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Trump to 'suspend immigration into the United States' by executive order amid coronavirus

By Gregg Re | Fox News

President Trump announced late Monday he will soon sign an executive order "to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States" in a drastic escalation of his efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic and boost the economy.

The declaration came hours after U.S. equity markets crashed, with oil prices turning negative for the first time in history. Also on Monday, three states -- Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina -- revealed plans to begin reopening some businesses.

"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 president tweeted.

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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!

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The precise contours of the president's planned executive order were not immediately clear. The U.S. recently agreed with both Canada and Mexico to extend border restrictions on nonessential travel for another 30 days, through May 16 and May 19, respectively.

And, the president already has blocked most travel from other hotspots, including most of Europe, Iran, South Korea, and China.

However, people with temporary work visas, students and business travelers were exempted, along with emergency personnel.

On Monday, the U.S. government said it will continue to quickly expel migrants it encounters along the border with Mexico for at least another month in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.


Jeanette Vizguerra wears a face mask during a car protest calling for the release of detainees at the GEO Immigration Detention Center because of the dangers posed by the new coronavirus Friday, April 17, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)


Under the U.S. policy change spurred by the virus, the U.S. government has sent 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 tested positive for COVID-19. Guatemala claims that 44 migrants deported from the U.S. tested positive.

CORONAVIRUS TIMELINE SHOWS MULTIPLE FLIP-FLOPS BY JOURNOS, POLITICIANS

Monday's immigration suspension was sure to draw fire from Democrats. On Jan. 31 Trump issued the "Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus," blocking most travel from China -- and at the time, Democrats harshly criticized the move.

Within hours, Joe Biden campaigned in Iowa and told the crowd that Americans “need to have a president who they can trust what he says about it, that he is going to act rationally about it. ... This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia – hysterical xenophobia – and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.”

Months later, Biden said he supported the China travel ban.

This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Michelle Malkin



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FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #immigrationmoratorium#americafirst

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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!

10:12 PM · Apr 20, 2020·Twitter Web App

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Ryan James Girdusky


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This hasn't been going on for months or even weeks... the carveouts haven't happened yet. This is the first step, the next step is to keep up the fight to make sure it includes student visas, H1bs, and H2bs

Matt Gaetz



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#AmericaFirst in Action.

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Donald J. Trump



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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!

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Trump to Suspend Immigration to the U.S. During Coronavirus

John Binder20 Apr 2020


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President Donald Trump says he will “temporarily suspend immigration” to the United States while the Chinese coronavirus crisis continues to claim American lives.

On Monday evening, Trump said he will pause all immigration to the U.S. — a moratorium that has not been enacted in four decades — while at least 22 million Americans are unemployed due to mandatory business closures by state governments.

“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,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

CBS News reports, according to sources, reports that the Trump administration has been working on the executive order for weeks:

Trump’s upcoming executive order to pause immigration to the U.S. is widely supported by American voters. An Ipsos poll released this month found that nearly eight-in-ten Americans, or about 79 percent, want a full halt on immigration to the U.S.


Likewise, the latest Pew Research Center survey reveals that more than 80 percent of American adults call mass migration to the U.S. a “threat.”


For weeks, Breitbart News has chronicled the historical precedent for an immigration moratorium during times of national crisis. During the Great Depression, for instance, mass unemployment was eased by major cuts to legal immigration levels that stayed below 100,000 annual admissions for nearly 15 years from 1931 and 1945.

Since at least 1999, the U.S. legal immigration system has predominately delivered green cards to Mexican nationals, Chinese nationals, and Indian nationals. Over a single two-year period, 2000 and 2001 for example, the U.S. delivered green cards to more than 100,000 Chinese nationals.

From 2016 to 2018, the U.S. delivered green cards to nearly 220,000 Chinese nationals and more than 184,000 Indian nationals — the overwhelming majority of which join the U.S. workforce to compete for jobs against Americans.

Trump’s authority over immigration, like all other presidents, is vast and broad.

In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the president’s control over legal immigration. In Trump v. Hawaii, the court stated that presidents have extraordinarily broad discretion to admit or exclude foreign nationals from the U.S. when they believe doing so is in the national interest.


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This would have worked better if he had done it in Feb.

DO NOT DISCRIMINATE!!!

Suspend ALL of it from across the Globe.

No refugees, no asylum, no TPS, no illegal aliens, no student visas, no work visas, no more people!

No Amnesty, no DACA, no path to stay, no citizenship! They need to go home.

Fast track deport all illegal aliens back over the FIRST border they illegally crossed and on down the line.

Give our border patrol an App for their phone or Tablet to process them in the Field. Enter the data, finger print them, and call for a bus to deliver them back to Mexico. They do not need to go to a "processing center" or "detention center". Process them ON the bus and move them out quickly.

Mexico let them in and they can take them all back! No free airplane ride, we are not their Travel Agent.

Mexico can contact their Embassy to pay for transportation back home.

Mexico does not want these people.

USA does not want these people.

STOP THE INVASION AND END ANCHOR BABY SCAM!

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White House Says Immigration Suspension Will Protect Wages

April 21, 2020

Neil Munro


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President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend immigration will protect wages for Americans, according to a Tuesday morning statement from the White House’s press secretary.

“President Trump is committed to protecting the health and economic well-being of American citizens as we face unprecedented times,” said the statement from press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The statement continued:

As President Trump has said, “Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.” At a time when Americans are looking to get back to work, the action is necessary.

The statement comes as pro-migration business lobbies and progressives complain that Trump’s suspension is “xenophobic” or “racist.”

For decades, the flood of legal and illegal immigrants has been used to drown blue-collar wages in construction, trucking, retail, the food industry, and manufacturing. This economic trend has pushed millions of blue-collar voters — including many blacks and Latinos — to back Trump in 2016.

In response, Trump promised a policy of “Hire American” during his 2017 inauguration speech.

Blue-collar wages rose rapidly in 2018 and 2019, partly because Trump’s border policies slowed and then stopped the inflow of blue-collar migrants from South America.

McEnany’s statement was silent about the huge impact of immigration and visa workers on American college graduates — even though the graduates are an important swing-voting bloc in the 2020 election.
Since his inauguration, Trump has not curbed the inflow of white-collar migrants via the various visa programs, such as the H-1B and OPT programs.

These white-collar programs are used by CEOs and investors to keep roughly 1.5 million foreign workers in U.S. college jobs and to force down salaries for a wide range of American graduates. For example, one U.S. computer expert told Breitbart News that he is being paid just $20 an hour by a major U.S. bank, after starting his careers in the early 1980s.

In general, business groups — including the influential tech companies — strongly support the salary-cutting white-collar visa programs. At the same time, Democrats prefer to defend the inflow of roughly one million legal immigrants each year.


Trump’s deputies are likely to continue some visa programs.
The preserved programs likely include the H-2A program that delivers carefully scheduled blocs of farmworkers to agricultural job sites around the country, the J-1 visa for foreign-trained doctors, and the 0-1 “genius visa” program that allows accomplished scientists and business executives into America.


Many polls show that American voters like — and want to like — immigrants. But the polls also show that the public strongly objects to companies hiring foreign workers before American employees. For example, an August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.

All foreign graduates at US colleges should get green cards & white-collar jobs, says #FWDus, a cheap-labor lobby for Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates & other investors.
Blue-collars were smashed by GWBush's policies: Biz targets white-collars for 2021+ #S386
https://t.co/B7TyKXtlZV
— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 5, 2020



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