Trump Administration Pushes to Extend Coronavirus Immigration Limits

The Trump administration just received some proposals of restricting and temporarily decreasing issuances of certain work-based visas categories, including H-1B, H-2B, and student work visas. According to the article, the upcoming changes in immigration policies will be built on the late April Executive Order, which is to temporarily ban new immigration for 60 days (there are some exceptions to this order). Furthermore, there are already discussions within the White House about imposing stricter rules in Southern Border, which primarily targets Latinos immigrants.

In my opinion, the Trump administration is using the tactic that they have been going after for years since the 2016 election: to tighten the immigration system in the US. If this is a case, the economy will be hurt significantly since a big amount of the workforce in the US depends heavily on immigrants. Additionally, some firms will find it hard to maintain their operations, which means they do not have enough resources to provide their customers with the optimum products and services.

Immigrants significantly contribute to the overall economy, especially filling up "holes" in the chain from executive to labor-based positions.



Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-pushes-to-extend-coronavirus-immigration-limits-11588935603?mod=hp_lead_pos4