Trump Suspends Visas Allowing Hundreds Of Thousands Of Foreigners To Work In The U.S.
Nikki Attkisson | Last Updated : June 23, 2020President Donald Trump on Monday temporarily suspended new work visas and barred hundreds of thousands of foreigners from seeking employment in the United States, part of a broad effort to limit the entry of immigrants into the country.
Trump blocked visas for a wide assortment of occupations, including those for software engineers and other skilled workers who enter the country under the H-1B visa, as well as those for seasonal workers in the hospitality industry, students on work-study summer programs and au pairs who arrive under other auspices.
The order also restricts the ability of American organizations with worldwide activities and global organizations with U.S. branches to move outside administrators and different representatives to the United States for months or yearslong stints. And it blocks the spouses of foreigners who are employed at companies in the United States.
Authorities said the ban on worker visas, combined with extending restrictions on the issuance of new green cards, would keep as many as 525,000 foreign workers out of the nation for the remainder of the year.
“Putting up a ‘not welcome’ sign for engineers, executives, IT experts, doctors, nurses, and other workers won’t help our country, it will hold us back,” said Thomas J. Donohue, the chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Organization authorities said the president’s structure would not influence individuals outside the United States who as of now have substantial visas or occasional farmworkers, whose yearly numbers have extended from a low of around 50,000 to a high of around 250,000 in the previous 15 years. There will likewise be a thin exemption for certain clinical laborers managing coronavirus research, authorities said.
The request will boycott au sets who go to the United States to care for children, though officials initially told reporters they would be exempt. Afterward, two senior organization authorities said guardians could look for waivers to the prohibition dependent upon the situation, with no affirmation that they would be endorsed.
“It’s really heartening to see the president stand up to the special interests that pull out the stops to lobby for these visa programs,” said Ms. Vaughan.
In addition to the temporary suspensions, administration officials said Mr. Trump was guiding the administration to roll out perpetual improvements to an expansive exhibit of migration guidelines so as to debilitate what they said was unfair competition for American jobs from foreigners looking to come to the United States.
Among those progressions will be new techniques for guaranteeing that high-ability visas, later on, are granted to the most generously compensated laborers and of keeping organizations from contracting huge quantities of midlevel remote specialists to perform bookkeeping, programming and other innovation helped occupations that Americans may have the option to do.
“The government could try and fast-track that process by not allowing the public to weigh in on the changes before they go into effect, but it is difficult to see that process surviving court review,” said Lynden Melmed, an immigration lawyer and the former chief counsel of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
With over 15 years as a practicing journalist, Nikki Attkisson found herself at Powdersville Post now after working at several other publications. She is an award-winning journalist with an entrepreneurial spirit and worked as a journalist covering technology, innovation, environmental issues, politics, health etc. Nikki Attkisson has also worked on product development, content strategy, and editorial management for numerous media companies. She began her career at local news stations and worked as a reporter in national newspapers.