Trump to Suspend Immigration to the U.S. During Coronavirus Crisis
John Binder
20 Apr 2020

President Donald Trump says he will “temporarily suspend immigration” to the United States while the Chinese coronavirus crisis continues to claim American lives.

On Monday evening, Trump said he will pause all immigration to the U.S. — a moratorium that has not been enacted in four decades — while at least 22 million Americans are unemployed due to mandatory business closures by state governments.

“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,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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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!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2020

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CBS News reports, according to sources, reports that the Trump administration has been working on the executive order for weeks:

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This immigration executive order is real and the White House has been working on it for several weeks. It is not a blanket policy and includes exceptions, a source familiar tells @CBSNews’ @PaulaReidCBS. https://t.co/GPk3iAd0Qg

— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) April 21, 2020

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Trump’s upcoming executive order to pause immigration to the U.S. is widely supported by American voters. An Ipsos poll released this month found that nearly eight-in-ten Americans, or about 79 percent, want a full halt on immigration to the U.S.

Likewise, the latest Pew Research Center survey reveals that more than 80 percent of American adults call mass migration to the U.S. a “threat.”

For weeks, Breitbart News has chronicled the historical precedent for an immigration moratorium during times of national crisis. During the Great Depression, for instance, mass unemployment was eased by major cuts to legal immigration levels that stayed below 100,000 annual admissions for nearly 15 years from 1931 and 1945.

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Immigration Pause Would Come After Four Decades of Foreign Worker Inflow https://t.co/3oaYm5YObi

— John Binder 👽 (@JxhnBinder) April 17, 2020

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Since at least 1999, the U.S. legal immigration system has predominately delivered green cards to Mexican nationals, Chinese nationals, and Indian nationals. Over a single two-year period, 2000 and 2001 for example, the U.S. delivered green cards to more than 100,000 Chinese nationals.

From 2016 to 2018, the U.S. delivered green cards to nearly 220,000 Chinese nationals and more than 184,000 Indian nationals — the overwhelming majority of which join the U.S. workforce to compete for jobs against Americans.

Trump’s authority over immigration, like all other presidents, is vast and broad.

In June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the president’s control over legal immigration. In Trump v. Hawaii, the court stated that presidents have extraordinarily broad discretion to admit or exclude foreign nationals from the U.S. when they believe doing so is in the national interest.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...navirus-crisis/

White House Says Immigration Suspension Will Protect Wages
Neil Munro
21 Apr 2020


President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend immigration will protect wages for Americans, according to a Tuesday morning statement from the White House’s press secretary.

“President Trump is committed to protecting the health and economic well-being of American citizens as we face unprecedented times,” said the statement from press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The statement continued:

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As President Trump has said, “Decades of record immigration have produced lower wages and higher unemployment for our citizens, especially for African-American and Latino workers.” At a time when Americans are looking to get back to work, the action is necessary.

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The statement comes as pro-migration business lobbies and progressives complain that Trump’s suspension is “xenophobic” or “racist.”

For decades, the flood of legal and illegal immigrants has been used to drown blue-collar wages in construction, trucking, retail, the food industry, and manufacturing. This economic trend has pushed millions of blue-collar voters — including many blacks and Latinos — to back Trump in 2016.

In response, Trump promised a policy of “Hire American” during his 2017 inauguration speech.

Blue-collar wages rose rapidly in 2018 and 2019, partly because Trump’s border policies slowed and then stopped the inflow of blue-collar migrants from South America.

McEnany’s statement was silent about the huge impact of immigration and visa workers on American college graduates — even though the graduates are an important swing-voting bloc in the 2020 election.

Since his inauguration, Trump has not curbed the inflow of white-collar migrants via the various visa programs, such as the H-1B and OPT programs.

These white-collar programs are used by CEOs and investors to keep roughly 1.5 million foreign workers in U.S. college jobs and to force down salaries for a wide range of American graduates. For example, one U.S. computer expert told Breitbart News that he is being paid just $20 an hour by a major U.S. bank, after starting his careers in the early 1980s.

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Goldman Sachs says blue-collars are getting a 4.3% raise or 2.7% after inflation.
That growth is beating white-collar salary growth since 2016, partly b/c of higher min-wage laws, but also b/c the gov't imports many foreign grads to lower salaries. https://t.co/2diCwbRMBF

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) December 11, 2019

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In general, business groups — including the influential tech companies — strongly support the salary-cutting white-collar visa programs. At the same time, Democrats prefer to defend the inflow of roughly one million legal immigrants each year.

Trump’s deputies are likely to continue some visa programs.

The preserved programs likely include the H-2A program that delivers carefully scheduled blocs of farmworkers to agricultural job sites around the country, the J-1 visa for foreign-trained doctors, and the 0-1 “genius visa” program that allows accomplished scientists and business executives into America.

Many polls show that American voters like — and want to like — immigrants. But the polls also show that the public strongly objects to companies hiring foreign workers before American employees. For example, an August 2017 poll reported that 68 percent of Americans oppose companies’ use of H-1Bs to outsource U.S.-based jobs that could be held by Americans.

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All foreign graduates at US colleges should get green cards & white-collar jobs, says #FWDus, a cheap-labor lobby for Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates & other investors.
Blue-collars were smashed by GWBush's policies: Biz targets white-collars for 2021+ #S386
https://t.co/B7TyKXtlZV

— Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 5, 2020

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/...-protect-wages/