Inside Trump's proposal to suspend some legal immigration amid coronavirus crisis
Posted on AllSides April 24th, 2020
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ANALYSIS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday that temporarily blocks some foreigners outside the United States from obtaining U.S. permanent residency, a move he said would protect American workers amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.
The executive order included a number of exemptions and was not a full suspension of legal immigration, as suggested by a Trump tweet late on Monday night.
Here is what Trump’s order does and does not do.
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