01/01/2021
Earlier: The Moratorium Is Set To Expire This Week — Will Trump Renew?
Washington Watcher II called Trump’s immigration moratorium, the temporary shutdown of legal immigration in response to COVID’s economic devastation, a "huge win for America".
Last night, I wrote that in 2020 America achieved, albeit temporarily, an employment-based Immigration Moratorium, something we couldn’t even get discussed in the Great Recession.
See It’s Official — U.S. Chamber Would Lobby for Foreign Workers During a Depression, by Roy Beck, NumbersUSA, February 10, 2009.
The measure would have expired last night at midnight, but Trump DID renew it: President Trump Extends Freeze On Many Worker Visas, by Franco Ordoñez, NPR, December 31, 2020.
That’s despite reports that Ivanka Trump didn’t want him to.
Important: Ivanka Trump pushed hard against this extension because she worries it will be bad for her political career to be identified with immigrantion restrictionism. https://t.co/NOFY01EghW
— Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) January 1, 2021
I don’t know who said that, but of course Trump’s kids don’t have any political future outside of Trumpism.
See also There’s A White House Clash Over Whether To Extend Freeze On Many Work Visas, by Franco Ordoñez, NPR, December 30, 2020
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