Trump to Sign Order Temporarily Halting Immigration (Comprehensive)
[Asia Economy New York=Correspondent Baek Jong-min] On the 20th (local time), U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive order temporarily halting immigration to the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Trump said on his Twitter that evening, "To protect the jobs of great Americans amid an attack by an invisible enemy, I will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration to the United States."
While President Trump has previously restricted immigration from certain foreign countries to the U.S., it is unusual for him to mention a decision to completely halt immigration.
One major foreign news outlet reported that President Trump made this announcement after the COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. reached over 42,000.
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It is also significant that President Trump linked jobs with the suspension of immigration. Over the past four weeks since the outbreak of COVID-19, approximately 22 million people have become unemployed in the United States.
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