Headline Roundup • April 24th, 2020

Perspectives: Trump's Immigration Executive Order

Coronavirus,World,Public Health,DHS,Donald Trump,Immigration

Summary from the AllSides News Team

President Donald Trump's executive order suspending some immigration to the United States has raised both praise and criticism. The President and White House say the executive order is aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus cases. Some left-rated voices and immigration advocates say Trump is using the pandemic to fuel his purportedly xenophobic agenda. Some right-rated voices and anti-immigration activists say the order doesn't go far enough, and question why the president didn't make a similar move sooner.

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Inside Trump's proposal to suspend some legal immigration amid coronavirus crisis

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Inside Trump's proposal to suspend some legal immigration amid coronavirus crisis

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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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Trump's moves on immigration reveal his true motives

CNN (Opinion)

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Opinion

(CNN) - At 10:06 p.m. EST on Monday, the lives of thousands of existing and would-be immigrants to the United States were suddenly thrown into further disarray in the midst of a global crisis. At that time, President Donald Trump tweeted that in order to "protect the jobs of GREAT American citizens," he would be suspending immigration to the United States. On Tuesday evening, he provided further details, saying he would order a 60-day pause that would apply only to people seeking green cards to become permanent US residents. It...

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Just imagine if Trump had stopped immigration in early February

Washington Examiner

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Opinion

There are tons of valid questions about the legality and the mechanism of this supposed suspension, and like many tweeted promises of Trump, this might never really happen.

Here’s my question: Given how fiercely Trump has always spoken about the threats from immigration, why did he not take earlier and stronger steps to close our borders and limit foreign travel into the country?

Yes, he issued a “travel ban” on China shortly after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency. But that has been porous. Reportedly,...

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