Trump's temporary halt to immigration is part of a broader plan, Stephen Miller says
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend family-based immigration because of the coronavirus is the beginning of a broader strategy to reduce the flow of foreigners into the United States, Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, told a group of conservative allies Thursday.
The executive order Trump signed this week bars people from receiving green cards for 60 days, a move that immigration advocates condemned. But it does nothing to limit visa programs that bring tens of thousands of workers to the United States, infuriating groups that call for deep reductions in the number of foreign citizens entering the country.
During the call, Miller said that the president’s executive order, while temporary, would have long-lasting effects because it would disrupt what conservatives call “chain migration,” in which the arrival of one immigrant in the United States opens the door to an extended family: parents, adult children, siblings and others.
During Miller’s call, the deputy secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, echoed Miller’s comments by saying the president has been considering such a step “since the economic effects of the COVID virus began.” But others in the party, including Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, have repeatedly pushed for legislation that would reduce legal immigration. In 2017, Trump endorsed the RAISE Act, a bill that Cotton sponsored that would have cut legal immigration each year by about half, from about 1 million to about 500,000. The legislation ultimately went nowhere.
On a recent call with Republican senators, Trump told the group that he would not “leave them hanging,” in reference to immigrants affected by the decision, but he said nothing further.
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