David L. Wilson, Truthout
April 30, 2020
Late on the evening of April 20, President Trump tweeted
that he was temporarily
suspending immigration to the United States. For justification he cited
what he called “the attack from the Invisible Enemy” — that is, COVID-19 — and
“the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.”
Government officials had to scramble to make sense of
Trump’s tweet, but by April 22, the White House staff had tacked together a
presidential proclamation for Trump to sign.[...]
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