Johnson suggested that Trump’s tweet, and the executive order that is reportedly expected to follow, were an attempt to “distract, blame and divide” in response to questions about how the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
In a late-night tweet Monday, President Trump announced his intention to sign an executive order “to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States,” citing the coronavirus crisis and “the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.”
Trump was notably not accompanied by any officials from the Department of Homeland Security, which would be tasked with implementing such an order. As of Tuesday evening, representatives from DHS had not released any details nor had they responded to multiple requests for more information regarding the president’s announcement.
Starting with a ban on almost all travel to the U.S. from China, Trump has since expanded his coronavirus-related restrictions to include foreigners traveling from Iran and most of Europe. All non-essential travel across the Mexican and Canadian borders has been shut down, refugee resettlement suspended, and practically all visa, green card and citizenship services have been put on pause.
Approximately one in four doctors in the U.S. was born outside the U.S., with immigrants making up 16.5 percent of all health care workers in the U.S. According to a recent study by the Migration Policy Institute, an estimated “263,000 immigrants and refugees with undergraduate degrees in health-related fields” are either unemployed or forced to work low-paying jobs requiring significantly less education because they received their training in other countries.
Immigration hardliners and prominent supporters of President Trump have criticized the administration’s efforts to recruit foreign workers amid skyrocketing unemployment rates. Sessions and other immigration restrictionists immediately praised Trump’s Twitter announcement Monday night, though some expressed disappointment on Tuesday evening after Trump made clear that the order would not, in fact, amount to an all-out ban on immigration.
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