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Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, says Trump

(UTV | COVID-19) – President Donald Trump has said he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend all immigration to the US because of the coronavirus.

On Twitter, he cited “the attack from the invisible enemy”, as he calls the virus, and the need to protect the jobs of Americans, but did not give details.

It was not clear what programmes might be affected and whether the president would be able to carry out the order.

Critics say the government is using the pandemic to crack down on immigration.

Mr Trump’s announcement late on Monday comes as the White House also argues the worst of the pandemic is over and the country can begin reopening. The US has 782,159 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 41,816 deaths.

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