Trump's Red Light on Green Cards
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🗓️ 22 April 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Trump is preparing an executive order that will suspend the issuing of green cards for 60 days. We speak to Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, who says following through on Trump’s order would amount to turning our backs on the same people who are fighting Covid-19 on the front-lines.
The Senate passed the interim relief deal yesterday. It funds small businesses, hospitals and testing, but doesn’t address hazard pay or vote-by-mail -- issues that Dems have been pushing for.
And in headlines: Joe Biden’s fundraising numbers, Idris Elba’s bad quarantine idea, and a major comedy theatre closes its doors in NYC.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 22nd. I'm a Heila Hughes. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Gideon Resnick and this is what a day wishing you a happy Earth Day when Mother Nature |
| 0:12.1 | is feeling herself more than ever. Yeah, I gotta say, the birds have been outside celebrating |
| 0:17.2 | pretty loud for a few days now and I'm over it. |
| 0:25.4 | On today's show, the next coronavirus relief bill is one step closer to getting past than |
| 0:29.6 | some headlines. But first, the latest. President Trump announced a new immigration order |
| 0:34.8 | yesterday in the midst of the global pandemic. This came after a tweet he sent on Monday night, |
| 0:39.2 | saying he was going to quote, temporarily suspend immigration to the United States' exclamation point. |
| 0:44.2 | You know, to be clear, he's not quite doing that. So Gideon, tell us what he actually is doing. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, we still don't have text of the executive order, but here's what we know so far, |
| 0:53.5 | based on more of what he had to say. Trump said that he's going to temporarily halt issuing green |
| 0:58.9 | cards, which is being interpreted as another means of preventing people from immigrating to the |
| 1:04.0 | United States, though it's much less sweeping of a policy change than that original tweet suggested. |
| 1:10.0 | Effectively, the order will likely apply to people applying for permanent residency. Now, |
| 1:15.0 | Trump said that the suspension would be in effect for 60 days and then he would assess the economic |
| 1:19.7 | situation the country is in to make a further decision after that. So it's possible that it could |
| 1:24.8 | extend further. His stated argument is that Americans shouldn't have to compete against |
| 1:29.6 | non-citizens to regain jobs as the economy has been thrown into crisis by the coronavirus. |
| 1:34.8 | The order, which was still being written as of Monday evening, would not apply to guest worker |
| 1:38.9 | programs and individuals entering on a temporary basis. Reportedly, that's because business groups |
| 1:44.5 | that employee workers on temporary visas were pretty pissed and pushed back on that. |
| 1:49.1 | Yeah, you know, this isn't the first time Trump has made moves to restrict immigration |
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