US president Donald Trump said he will sign an executive order to institute his new immigration ban targeting those seeking permanent residency. Trump said the move was an effort to ‘protect American workers’ amid the coronavirus pandemic. Immigration is effectively cut off anyway because of the coronavirus through border restrictions and flight bans. At the daily coronavirus news briefing, reporters quizzed Trump’s motivation for instigating the ban, asking if he was taking advantage of the Covid-19 crisis to implement a long-sought policy goal. ‘We must first take care of the American worker’, Trump insisted
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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
