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Assessing Economic Damage from Trump's Latest Immigration Ban

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Immigration, News, News Commentary, Peace, 424708, Markets, Government, Libertarian, Policy, Politics, Cato, Defense

4.5979 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The Supreme Court has ended one tactic by the Trump White House to end Obama-era protections for some immigrants. A new proclamation from the President aims to broadly suspend many more workers from coming to the U.S. Alex Nowrasteh comments.

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0:00.0

This is the Kater Daily Podcast for Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020.

0:05.0

I'm Caleb Brown.

0:06.2

The White House attempted to end DACA, the Obama-era program that aimed to protect

0:11.0

child immigrants from deportation, the Supreme Court responded

0:15.0

that the Trump administration had done it the wrong way.

0:18.3

The White House response, a new order that will, with a few exceptions, freeze guest workers entering the United States

0:24.7

through the end of the year.

0:26.5

Cato's Alex Narasta describes the economic damage that this order will likely do.

0:31.7

The president was handed something of a rebuke by the US

0:35.9

Supreme Court. They said that his attempts to end the deferred action on childhood

0:42.1

arrivals, the Obama era program that the at that time his attempt to undo it he did it the wrong way according to the

0:56.7

Supreme Court so what has he done in response so what he's done in response is two things. One he has said that he is going to

1:08.0

repeal DACA that is going to make sure to do it correctly, dock their legal eyes and cross their legal teas. And secondly, last

1:16.0

night he issued a presidential proclamation that will severely restrict the issuance of new guest worker visas in several categories,

1:28.2

including the H-1B visa for skilled workers, as well as several other visas for lower skilled workers and

1:35.0

limit the government's ability to issue these visas to people until the end of

1:41.6

this year and I will predict that if he wins re-election he will

1:47.6

continue to restrict the issuance of these visas for as long as he is in office.

1:54.3

So what are the likely short-term impacts here?

1:58.8

We're seeing a resurgence in coronavirus in the to help. So there are several exceptions in the

2:14.8

executive in the proclamation. One of them is for health care workers who are

2:18.8

working in coronavirus related fields either as research or as medical providers.

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