The legislators have hailed the order as a way to defend American jobs and lives during the coronavirus epidemic.
pledging to"temporarily suspend immigration into the United States," Trump announced during Tuesday's White House coronavirus briefing that he wanted his order to ensure that employers hire furloughed and fired workers rather than immigrants as states begin reopening nonessential businesses shuttered by governors' orders.
"We don't need to be bringing in a million-plus workers when 22 million Americans are out of work," Texas Senator Ted Cruz told Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson on Tuesday. "I think halting legal immigration, and I say this as the son of a legal immigrant, I believe in legal immigration as long as it benefits jobs," he said."But when you have a catastrophe unfolding, bringing in millions of additional workers before the Americans get hired, that doesn't make any sense."
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