Trump to cut immigration by 525,000 in effort to open jobs for unemployed Americans
by Anna Giaritelli, Homeland Security Reporter |
| June 22, 2020 03:29 PM
President Trump is suspending five classes of visas through the end of the year in an effort to open more than a half-million jobs to Americans, according to three senior administration officials.
Trump will extend the 60-day halt he issued on April 22 for incoming green-card recipients or those who have been approved to live and work in the United States as permanent legal residents. Trump will further expand the bans to additional types of visas.
"That is being extended to the end of the year, and the president is expanding that measure in light of the, frankly, the expanding unemployment and the number of Americans out of work," a senior administration official told reporters in a call Monday afternoon. "He's going to include a number of nonimmigrant visas."
In all, the visas being suspended would prevent approximately 525,000 immigrants from entering the U.S. through the end of 2020.
President Trump is suspending five classes of visas through the end of the year in an effort to open more than a half-million jobs to Americans, according to three senior administration officials.
Trump will extend the 60-day halt he issued on April 22 for incoming green-card recipients or those who have been approved to live and work in the United States as permanent legal residents. Trump will further expand the bans to additional types of visas.
"That is being extended to the end of the year, and the president is expanding that measure in light of the, frankly, the expanding unemployment and the number of Americans out of work," a senior administration official told reporters in a call Monday afternoon. "He's going to include a number of nonimmigrant visas."
In all, the visas being suspended would prevent approximately 525,000 immigrants from entering the U.S. through the end of 2020.
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