All market data delayed 20 minutes.“President Trump’s decision to suspend new guest worker visas is a strong show of support for American workers," Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, who wrote to Trump urging him to extend the order to guest worker programs, said in a statement. "Approximately forty-five million individuals have filed for unemployment since mid-March.
“In order to ensure that we are hiring Americans first, we are putting a pause on certain non-immigrant visas into the United States, again for the purpose of ensuring that Americans can get jobs here in the U.S.”Trump, speaking to Fox News' John Roberts on Saturday, acknowledged that some exemptions were needed to help businesses.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. She’ll answer your questions about reporting on California’s congressional delegation and the coronavirus stimulus packages.Employers who rely on seasonal employees can also be proactive by showing that they need the workers, Sapochnick said.Get our weekly Business newsletterLila Seidman covers trending and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times.President Trump claims mail voting leads to mass fraud.
It will be in effect until the end of the year and will not affect those who already have a visa, Fox News is told.Democrats and immigration activists are likely to oppose the order, having opposed the April order as anti-immigrant."This proclamation undermines America’s greatest economic asset: its diversity. Sapochnick pointed to an example of a hotel that needs a number of workers to ready it for reopening or provide extra cleaning services due to the coronavirus. But given the various restrictions, he’ll have to wait in France until January or later, Rugendorf said.Instead of selecting specific people, a company usually identifies that it needs a group of workers and connects with a recruiter to fill the slots. “They’ll essentially be out of a workforce for the season,” he said, “that’s why it’s so devastating.”U.S. "And we may even go very tight for a period of time."But, while the order does contain a number of exemptions, the argument that such restrictions will hurt the recovery is one the administration rejects. “You really want your guy here, right?” Nehme said.
He cited recent personal success in securing approval for a group of electrical workers.Once they open, “then this proclamation will have more teeth, in terms of real enforcement,” said Rugendorf, a partner with Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.Nehme agreed that most companies or individuals pursuing an H-1B or L visa aren’t likely to abandon hope yet, given the specialized nature of the work involved. Another president could undo it immediately. The order also does not affect the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program.As the election season moves forward, it is also a move that is likely to motivate Trump’s base who have urged him to stick to his promise of putting “America First.” But it is also likely to re-stoke criticism from Democrats that Trump is running on an anti-immigrant agenda.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThe order was criticized by big companies, like Twitter.The new order extends the measure and goes further by pausing new H-1B tech worker visas, H-2B seasonal worker visas, certain J work and education exchange visitor visas and L executive transfer visas.