President Trump
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The White House issued a proclamation hours before Trump’s original order expired. As a result, immigrants will be banned on various visas until March 31, unless the incoming Biden government repeals it before then.
“The new novel Coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) will continue to significantly disrupt the livelihoods of Americans,” reads the proclamation. “While the overall unemployment rate of 6.7 percent in the United States in November reflects a clear decline from the peak in April, there were still 9,834,000 fewer seasonally adjusted non-farming jobs in November than in February 2020.”
The suspension applies to H-1B visas, H-2B visas, H-4 visas, L-1 visas and certain J-1 visas.
The largest program affected by the order is H-1B visas, the recipients of which are usually skilled workers in the technology industry who can stay in the US for a number of years.
H-2B visas apply to seasonal workers and H-4 visas are issued to spouses of H-1B visa holders.
J-1 visas are given to researchers, scholars and other specialized categories such as au pairs, while L-1 visas are for drivers going to the same position abroad in the United States.
Trump has come under pressure from some quarters to extend the order to 2021, with some allies noting that the economy has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic. The allies also believe that the elected president will place the election of the visa restrictions Joe Biden
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“If this proclamation were to lapse, companies could easily return to cheap foreign labor,” said RJ Hauman, head of government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who called for the expansion of restrictions. “If President-elect Biden recalls quickly, the country should take note – he does not stand with American workers.”
Biden’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The president-elect has promised to undo much of Trump’s immigration policy, but if the economy continues to struggle, he may be less likely to allow more foreign workers to join the U.S. workforce if millions of Americans are still unemployed.
The Trump administration initially justified the suspension by claiming it would free up jobs for Americans who were out of work due to the pandemic. But immigration has been largely closed due to travel restrictions, and many companies have said that certain positions that existed before the pandemic will not be filled again.
The position of the proclamation that the effects of the pandemic on the American labor market are an ongoing national concern is in many ways contrary to Trump’s own rhetoric about the economy. He released a video earlier in the day highlighting the low unemployment rate and boasting that “our economy is growing at the fastest rate ever recorded.”
Updated at 6:47 p.m.