“If you can get back, I’d cut your trip short and come back immediately,” Siskind tweeted.
The executive action could impact workers for as long as 180 days and also impact short-term seasonal workers, Atlanta-area immigration firm Kuck Baxter warned clients in a memo earlier this week. The firm said the suspension could be for as long as 180 days and would likely include exceptions for health care and food supply workers.
Trump’s original executive order was hastily drafted after he tweeted at the height of the coronavirus pandemic that he planned to “temporarily suspend immigration into the United States.”
His tweet caught businesses, farmers, and even some White House aides by surprise, and came before lawyers on the president’s team had finished drafting the executive order. Critics of the administration said that the move would make it harder for families impacted by the coronavirus to reunite and disrupt attempts by businesses to employ critical workers.
But some Republican senators -- including Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Chuck Grassley of Iowa -- have urged Trump to suspend guest-worker visas for at least a year.
“Given the extreme lack of available jobs for American job-seekers as portions of our economy begin to reopen, it defies common sense to admit additional foreign guest workers to compete for such limited employment,” the Republicans wrote in a letter to the White House last month.
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