Trump announces he will unilaterally ban all immigration to the United States

[Chicago1980]

Source: The Raw Story

Trump announces he will unilaterally ban all immigration to the United States

Published 1 min ago on April 20, 2020 By Bob Brigham

President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that he would be suspending all immigration into the United States.

“In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States,” Trump announced on Twitter.

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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-announces-he-will-unilaterally-ban-all-immigration-to-the-united-states/

[uppityperson]

1. Is this legal?

Darn autocorrect, kept changing legal to kayak. Makes about as much sense as IMPOYUS puking this stunt.

[ashredux]

3. That was my first thought as well

[ananda]

2. Boy, this virus appears to be Trump's wet dream...

... when it comes to immigration and making blue
states suffer.

[riversedge]

55. and Stephan Millers!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Temporary??

Hasn't he pretty much tried to do that already? Except for Norway, of course.

[sheshe2]

16. Or his wifes family...

They went to the head of the line and became citizens!!!!

Chain migration.

[TreadSoftly]

5. Now all the DT babbling about how great closing to Chinese citizens in Jan is understandable

Because if cutting off Chinese people is so fantastic, we need to cut off the rest of the world to be even more fantastic.

Hope nobody told him how the green card system works.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. By Wednesday he'll forget all about it.

Someone, perhaps Barr, will pull him aside and he'll "postpone" or have a change of heart.

He really needs adult supervision on his phone.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. And he calls it "the Invisible Enemy". In 1933 it was "juden vermin". Just watch the racists

Just watch the racists talk about "the Invisible Enemy".

[Mr.Bill]

8. My question is

if he really thinks this will help with the current problem, why didn't he do it three months ago?

[LudwigPastorius]

9. This is what my dad's family from Arkansas would call "closing the barn door after...

the cows have gotten out".

But, you know, if it makes Trumpy feel all big and strong, whatever... It's just another dagger in our already fucked economy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Other angle, he is flailing, so now he is escalating the distractions. This has zero effect on the

This has zero effect on the virus and the rate of infection.

It is already well rooted all over the place.

It will be blowing up in places that had demonstrations and church services and beach strolls.

This will be about as effective as tRump's porous travel ban: not much. The blow ups in infection came from Europe after the leaky China travel ban. That was in tRump's lost five weeks.

[elleng]

11. Yes

[Arkansas Granny]

22. Distraction is what he does best. He knows he bungled the rrsponse

to Covid 19 so he had to come up with something totally unrelated to take attention away from that fact.

[cstanleytech]

33. Aye its purely his attempt to rally his base after calling the virus fake and cluster fucking a

response to actually stopping it.

[Solly Mack]

12. Idiot. Loudmouth. Con. Liar.

Tiresome orange blob.

[sheshe2]

18. Same way he is banning all PPE?

[Solly Mack]

26. There is always a lie and a con with Trump

More than anything it sounds like gristle his supporters can chew on. The whole no immigrants to take our jobs thing. Never mind many of those jobs Americans weren't doing anyway and a lot of jobs lost to the Covid 19 outbreak won't be coming back anytime soon. Some will never come back.

Trump's had a hard-on to stop all entry since the get-go. Even temporarily.

[sheshe2]

27. Is it okay...

Is it okay that I hope his clan supporters choke on that gristle?

Take care, Solly.

[Solly Mack]

28. I'm OK with it.

You, too She.

[bdamomma]

13. Says

the IMPEACHED POS.

Fuck him.

[delisen]

14. This is Jim Jones + Soviet strategy. Lock us in is next

The wall on south border. The recent attempt to militarize north border.

Making emigration and travel out of the country difficult will come up at some point.

Trump's mind has North Korea and Soviet blueprints inside and perhaps Jim Jones's jungle fortress.

[Mr.Bill]

23. Excellent.

I can't wait until we get to the part where his followers drink the Kool-Aid.

[Grokenstein]

31. And I can't wait until we get to the part

the Mussolinis are captured while trying to flee the country and are executed.

[Initech]

54. Well, they've got their Kool-Aid, hydroxychloroquine. So...

Just a matter of time.

[C_U_L8R]

15. Isn't this at totally at odds with his Liberate proclamations?

Not that this idiot has ever made sense... but you'd think a couple of his drooling magats would realize that there's an actual virus that will kill them and their families.

[Yonnie3]

17. Immigration?

Tourists, students and business people aren't immigrants.

Dumbass Trump

[budkin]

19. Totally illegal

Can't do it.

[IronLionZion]

20. Very few people traveling right now

so I'd like to see what exactly this means. It better not be to stop swearing in new citizens who have been here for years and did everything correctly. That would warrant lawsuits.

[Initech]

57. Except Chump and the hard right currenlty have the courts stacked in their favor.

If such a lawsuit reached SCOTUS it would be a decision that would be as bad as Citizens United. I would seriously fear that.

[roamer65]

21. The courts will strike it down.

I’m sure the ACLU is gonna sue immediately.

[Wellstone ruled]

24. So Wilbur Ross Wrote this for you.

Wilbur always figured it we did away with them Mexican folk,then them White folk gotsa work those jobs. Cause you know,23 million unemployed will be eager to Mow Lawns and tote them Bags at Mar-a-shithole.

[ProfessorGAC]

45. And Pick Vegetables

Yeah, Right!
The reason that industry has been dominated by migrant workers for many decades is because Americans, by & large, won't do that work.
Ross is not only out of touch, he's stuck in 1935.

[Eugene]

49. Don't put it past him to want those "good old days" back.

[Wellstone ruled]

51. Reagan tried this same crap.

I am sure there are folks who will do those jobs. Yah right,about a dozen people showed up and only one finished the day.

[ProfessorGAC]

53. 1935?

If he thinks 1935 is the good old days, he's not just deluded, he's stupid, too.

[Wellstone ruled]

50. Take it from some one who

did stoop labor as a farm kid. It is a bitch,thinning Beets and hoeing Thistles and Hog Weeds out of the Corn Rows. Builds character,my ass,only thing those jobs did was,give you one hell of a back ache .

Wilbur is living his dream.

[Botany]

25. Anybody want to get that barn door?

50 miles from where I am sitting right now 1,800 C-19 cases are active .... Marion State Prison, Marion, OH


13 miles from my house is another 200 or so cases are @ the State prison hospital

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. May be some serious dereliction of duty, LIHOP, at Marion State Prison. . . . nt

[Botany]

40. This was not a let it happen on purpose in Marion.

It is just the dynamics of "the beast."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. Sure, it's a tough virus. But other prisons have minor outbreaks. Marion is very bad.

Probably not LIHOP, but serious dereliction of duty of care to let it explode like that. Perhaps Warden and staff are trumpanzees and don't believe much in that sciency stuff.

Like I say elsewhere, and I now advise myself here, favour incompetence as an explanation over malfeasance in absence of evidence for the latter.

[jmowreader]

29. So...what happens in two weeks...

...when yooge numbers of Trump supporters who participated in "liberation" rallies, went to the beach and attended church start breaking out in COVID-19? Who will he blame then, Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow, Lady Gaga or Ozzy Osbourne? "They say this virus started out in bats...Ozzy bit the head off a bat once...it's gotta be him."

Besides, who the hell is trying to emigrate to the US during this shit? I say this is 50 percent "I hate foreigners and will take any opportunity to show it," and 50 percent "I love trolling the libs."

[sdfernando]

56. If I were a foreigner there is no way I'd want to visit the U.S.A. right now

given the sky-rocketing infection rate, the serious lack of testing,the lack of hospita beds, the sorry state of the U.S. health care system, the unbelievably inept government response, do I have to go on?

No way in hell I would want to come to the U.S.A right now. I'd take my chances in whatever country I was in.

[Tech]

30. Does anyone want to come here at this point?

[mbusby]

32. The gov. of Maryland (R)....

...got pissed off with Trump and got his Korean wife to travel to South Korea and convince them to send 500K COVID-19 tests via Korean Airlines. The next couple of days, Trump suspends all immigration into the U.S. Hmmm...

[BigmanPigman]

34. What? Did he just end another call with his master, Putin?

They have been yakking constantly over the past two weeks...no a good thing!

[Kablooie]

35. That's kind of him. It will protect foreigners from contracting the Coronavirus.

[alp227]

36. Election year security theater, just like what Tom Ridge revealed

CNN in August 2009 about Ridge recounting events from 2004:

"An election-eve drama was being played out at the highest levels of our government" after Osama bin Laden released a pre-election message critical of President George W. Bush, writes Ridge in his new book, "The Test of Our Times."

Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld strongly advocated raising the security threat level to "orange," even though Ridge believed a threatening message "should not be the sole reason to elevate the threat level."

Imagine if Trump had been president instead of The Apprentice host in 2004.

[Lady_Chat]

37. Why would anyone want to come here now?

United States: Corona virus Cases: 792,913. Deaths:42,517 No specific drug to be used, No Vaccine, No Plans for testing. What jobs? Millions unemployed.

The time to 'protect" this country was back in 2018, before he fired the US Pandemic Team and cut funding to the CDC. Time to "protect" this country was taking a possible pandemic coming our way, seriously and not calling it a "hoax" and "Fake News"

So many times after that too...including not cutting funding to the WHO.

This is Trump trying to look "tough" to his supporters. The "invisible Enemy is a virus, not the immigrants he has tried to terrorize his brain dead supporters with.

In the long run maybe it's a good idea, because with so many states lifting restrictions, if a second wave should hit, he won't be able to blame it on his favorite target : immigrants.

[w0nderer]

38. k & r n/t

[Ford_Prefect]

42. Score one more for Reichsfuhrer of the Schutzstaffel Stephen Miller.

It's unclear what mechanism he will use to suspend immigration, how long such a suspension could last or what effect this will have on the operation of US border crossings and on those who already hold green cards.

The White House declined to provide further information on the executive order Monday evening. The Department of Homeland Security didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/donald-trump-immigration-halt-coronavirus/index.html|
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[duforsure]

43. He'll keep using the virus as a weapon

With stopping all immigration, and next to get your wages cut. Using medical supplies and he'll use any treatments or vaccines that way too. Praise me or else. Everything he's doing is weakening this country, and hurting the American people , unless you're very wealthy. Now he has people protesting after starving them with woefully low direct cash payments to them when needed the most.

[NickB79]

44. Farmers depend on migrant labor

Crops will rot while shelves go empty.

[sinkingfeeling]

46. OMG, who will tend to the lawns and clean the toilets at Mar a Lago?

[Ford_Prefect]

47. Recently Un-employed Republicans...

[bucolic_frolic]

48. Here's the rest of the story

Link to tweet

[Blasphemer]

52. No one wants to come anyway. I'm more concerned about other countries doing this..

and not being able to get out of here if that becomes necessary in order to escape the Trump/Barr self-annihilation plot.