ONLY NANCY PELOSI HAS ASSAULTED THE AMERICAN WORKER MORE THA TRUMP!
Trump to cut immigration by 525,000 in effort to open jobs for unemployed Americans
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. The officials did not say when the president would take action, though the existing visa limitations were slated to expire Monday.
Immigrant visas are given to foreigners who seek to live permanently in the U.S. Nonimmigrant visas are for those who wish to enter the U.S. for a limited period of time for tourism, medical treatment, business, temporary work, school, and other reasons.
The White House will restrict most, if not all, H-1B, H-4, H-2B, J, and L visas. Trump previously limited H-1B visas in April with exceptions for workers in essential industries, including the food industry. H-2B visa restrictions affect those who work seasonal jobs, including the hotel and construction sectors. H-4 visas are for immediately family members of H-1B recipients, J visas go to students in study- and work-based programs, and L visas are for company employees in managerial or executive positions who move within the company to the U.S.
The Trump administration in January, February, and March suspended the admittance of foreigners from a number of countries but continued to allow foreign workers on temporary and long-term visas to enter. Republican Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Josh Hawley of Missouri urged Trump to pause the guest worker programs as unemployment rates began creeping up to 13%.
Peter Boogaard, a DHS spokesman in the Obama administration, said the executive action limiting immigration levels, which are to be determined by Congress, was ironic in light of Trump's efforts to undo an Obama-era executive action on the basis that it was an executive overreach.
"As the White House prepares to unveil new EO to massively cut legal immigration, they are also simultaneously saying that it was illegal for Obama to use an EO to protect DACA, after losing at SCOTUS," Boogaard wrote on Twitter.
A senior administration official on the call said the White House was "hopeful" about getting bipartisan support for its move.
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