And here we have it…
Something Donald Trump and his assistant Stephen Miller has wanted to do for the last 3 1/2 years…
Close America off from the world….
Under the excuse of the virus….
Donald Trump is gonna go political and bar ANY immigration into America ….
Putting a halt to Visa’s and Green Card’s and asylum seekers…
Seeing himself as a ‘war time’ President?
He is trying to circle the wagon’s and isolate American even further as if he and his assistant are afraid of them outside world…
And for fill a campaign promise that could be viewed as racist and reglious based…
As we get closer to the November election?
One should expect more of Trump attempts to go beyond accepted normal means to get his way’s…
President Trump said on Monday that he intended to close the United States to people trying to immigrate into the country to live and work, a drastic move that he said would protect American workers from foreign competition once the nation’s economy began to recover from the shutdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter, “I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpIn 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!
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has said health concerns justified moving swiftly to bar asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants from entering the country, alarming immigration advocates who have said that Mr. Trump and his advisers were using a global pandemic to further hard-line immigration policies.
But the president’s late-night announcement on Monday signals his most wide-ranging attempt yet to seal the country off from the rest of the world. A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days, according to several people familiar with the plan.
Under such an executive order, the Trump administration would no longer approve any applications from foreigners to live and work in the United States for an undetermined period of time, effectively shutting down the legal immigration system in the same way the president has long advocated closing the borders to illegal immigration.
It was not immediately clear what legal basis Mr. Trump would claim to justify shutting down most immigration.
Workers who have for years received visas to perform specialized jobs in the United States would also be denied permission to arrive, though some workers in some industries deemed critical could be exempted from the ban, the people familiar with the president’s discussion said….
Note…
In typical Trump fashion?
He is doing something big and crazy to divert the media from a problem that he has…Namely the virus and the economy…
Geoff Bennett</strong>
@GeoffRBennett
The U.S. has 786K coronavirus cases.
Here are the top 10 immigrant countries to the U.S. & number of cases:
MEXICO: 8,772
INDIA: 18,539
PHILLIPPINES: 6,459
CHINA: 83,826
VIETNAM: 268
EL SALVADOR: 218
CUBA: 1,087
S. KOREA: 10,683
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 4,964
GUATEMALA: 289
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
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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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Geoff Bennett
@GeoffRBennett
Source for the top 10 countries:
@MigrationPolicy
Source for Covid-19 confirmed cases:
@JohnsHopkins
According to what I’ve read, immigration has effectively been closed off for the past month or so anyway due to the pandemic.
In other words, this “ announcement “ was strictly a political act?
Yup Jack….
I saw that also….
Trump trying to throw out a ‘diversion’…