The Trump administration is using the pandemic-induced economic slump to justify a clamp-down on new, legal immigration
NEARLY FOUR years ago, in a campaign speech in Arizona, Donald Trump set out a ten-point plan for reshaping a chaotic immigration system. Beyond building a wall and deporting more foreigners, he vowed America would “choose immigrants based on merit”, while imposing controls “to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first”. “Doesn’t that sound nice?” he asked the whooping crowd. “It’s going to happen, folks.
A broad executive order issued on June 22nd covers would-be migrants who seek a chance to work in America. It will keep them out at least until the end of the year. Citing high unemployment, it suspends new issuance of four types of visa: H-1Bs, widely used by employees at tech companies; H-2Bs, for lower-skilled, often outdoor workers; J visas, for au pairs, temporary summer workers and some academics; and L visas, for professionals relocated within companies.
Were Mr Trump to be re-elected in November, more of the same should be expected in a second term. Sarah Pierce, at MPI, points out that the pandemic “has created an opening” for him to act more forcefully, summing up the latest order as a “wild action” and “the most severe action this administration had taken against immigration” so far.
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