Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b
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Let me take just a moment to talk about what we are attempting to do here in the senate. Exaggeration and hyperbole is the order of the day. Say always reluctant to this truly could be one of the most important things we as members of this committee do. What the world is experiencing today, what the United States is facing today, is one of the most significant challenges that a lot of us will face in our lifetime. The bad news, the really bad possibleit is entirely that it will happen again, and i say this because the experts virus thatt this made the leap from one species can very easily happen again. There are 2000 of these viruses out there. Dohave no idea what they can if they get into a human being. Us they haves tell identified within their ranks about 2000 different viruses. Having said that, we need to want toward, and i stress what i am trying to do with this and what all of us are trying to do, look forward. There are a lot of hearings going on. Theres a lot of hyperbole goin
Pandemic spread throughout the United States over the past 13 weeks. And while the white house is encouraged that more than half of those have found work, President Trump has chosen to suspend visas of Foreign Workers who would be in direct competition with American Workers. The new executive order suspends h1b visas for professional workers, h4 visas for their immediate family members, the order also restricts h2b visas for Agricultural Workers and l1 visas that allow multinational corporations to transfer their employees into the United States. As well as j1 visas for work and studybased exchange programs, all of them suspended until the end of the year. These impact, of course, the president s executive order, its much larger than anyone could have expected. It will affect hundreds of thousands of Foreign Workers seeking those visas, of course, and state Department Data shows that is a big number. That of the nearly one million temporary work visas approved, almost 190,000 were h1b