Trump Extends Order Halting Visas to Prioritize Americans for U.S. Jobs

Article publisher: 
Breitbart
Article date: 
1 January 2021
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
President Trump has extended an executive order to prioritize unemployed Americans for jobs in the United States rather than allowing businesses to import foreign visa workers.
 
In June 2020, Trump signed an executive order halting H-1B visas, H-4 visas, H-2B visas, L visas, and J-1 visas while tens of millions of Americans were jobless or underemployed due to economic lockdowns as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
 
The order was set to expire at the end of 2020, but Trump intervened to extend the order to continue prioritizing U.S. jobs for unemployed Americans instead of allowing businesses to import foreign visa workers in a struggling labor market....
 
The order will now expire in March 2021.