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In our recent analysis of President Trump's proclamation that ostensibly curtails immigration, Jessica Vaughan ([link removed]) and Andrew Arthur ([link removed]) explain that the order could actually restart entries for select visa categories that had been paused indefinitely when the State Department shut down most adjudications on March 20, due to the pandemic. It prioritizes the entry of EB-5 admissions, the most scandal-ridden visa category of all, in which foreigners can purchase green cards for their families. The order does pause other non-essential visa categories, but these categories number only a tiny fraction of total annual admissions, roughly 25,000 visa applicants per month. However well-intentioned, the order will provide little relief to Americans. We recommend that the president take much bolder steps to help U.S. workers by
reviewing the labor certifications of thousands of pending employment-based green cards in order to ensure that they are still justifiable and suspending all temporary work visa programs.

Commentary
No, The Wuhan Virus Won't Cause A U.S. Population Decline ([link removed])
By Steven A. Camarota
The Federalist, April 20, 2020
Featured Posts
The Argument Against Agricultural and Food Processing Guestworkers During a Pandemic ([link removed])
By Dan Cadman
The agriculture and food-processing industries have argued that temporary workers are critical to maintaining the supply chain, leading the president to echo the claim and authorize additional expedited admissions while asserting that they will be carefully monitored. This is a doubtful proposition given that there aren't enough healthcare workers, masks, ventilators, trustworthy test kits, ad nauseam, to go around.

What Happens When Foreign Workers Lose Their Jobs in the U.S.? ([link removed])
By David North
There are reports on foreign workers losing their jobs as a result of the sharp decline in the health of the economy, as we reported recently. In some cases, the only reason that they are here in legal status is because they have a job in one of our foreign-worker schemes, such as in the H-1B program for skilled workers. So what happens to them when they lose the job that got them here in the first place? Do they leave the country?
Regarding Advocate Demands to Free Migrants from ICE Detention Covid-19 Deathtraps ([link removed])
By Todd Bensman
A "Let My People Go" campaign, both legal and political, is now at full throttle for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to empty its detention centers of migrants to save them from certain Covid-19 death. The demands for release, of course, stand out in that they always militate for northward departures, through the U.S. side of the turnstile.

A Call for Bipartisanship on the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and a Solution ([link removed])
By Julie Axelrod
Mexico's National Migration Institute left over 480 Honduran, Guatemalan, and Salvadoran migrants on the Mexico-Guatemala border. The nearly 500 Central Americans had boarded buses from several migration detention facilities throughout southern Mexico to be sent back to their countries of origin. But Guatemalan immigration agents refused to accept the migrants over fear of contracting COVID-19.

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* State Department Avoids the Question: Will There Be a Summer Work Travel Program? ([link removed])
* Trump's 'Ban' on Migrants Does Not Cover EB-5 Families ([link removed])
* It Takes a Willing Suspension of Disbelief to Believe in the 60-Day Immigration Moratorium ([link removed])
* How Many Resources Does the Government Have to Enforce the Temporary Worker Visa Program? ([link removed])
* Mexican Judges Order Release of More Than 2,000 Detained Migrants Over Health Pandemic ([link removed])
* President to Suspend Immigration Temporarily ([link removed])
* Foreign Workers, Virus-Related Layoffs, and Benefit Packages ([link removed])
* Should There Be a Summer Work Travel Program This Year? ([link removed])
* Airlines Getting Those Fat Subsidies Should Fly Volunteer Airlines ([link removed])

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The Center for Immigration Studies hosted a panel discussion on the need for present levels of foreign workers in the United States at a time of high unemployment. With 20 million layoffs in just one month, and both white collar and blue collar workers being impacted, U.S. visa programs continue to bring in an historic number of workers impacting job opportunities and wages for American workers.

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