Trump's executive order suspending immigration will likely have exemptions for farm and medical workers

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The order is likely to affect programs that are frequently targeted by anti-immigration activists who claim that they encourage companies to hire foreign employees who will work for less money than equally qualified Americans.

U.S. President Donald Trump salutes with Border Patrol agents at the Rio Grande as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter flies over after his visit to US Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas, on January 10, 2019.President Trump's planned order to stop immigration to the U.S.

The tweet caught his staff off guard and they scrambled to figure out what the order would entail.

One source familiar with the drafting process said that negotiations over the order's contents were ongoing, but that the final product would most likely be narrowly tailored and intended to protect American jobs at a time when more than 20 million Americans are out of work because of the economic downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic. It would suspend visa programs under which companies bring skilled immigrant workers to the U.S.

Instead, the proclamation, administration officials said, would temporarily halt use of visa programs such as the H-1B visa and others that allow highly skilled and often highly educated workers to take jobs with companies based in this country. According to an American Immigration Council fact sheet, the H-1B visa"allows employers to petition for highly educated foreign professionals to work in 'specialty occupations' that require at least a bachelor's degree or the equivalent.

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and golf course grounds keepers!!

Oh no!! Did Trump not think this through? Did he ask anyone? Who’ll cut his Trump Tower lawns? And the laundry

uhhhh...well...I believe that is 90% of the immigrant workforce so that works for me! immigrantsKeepAmericaRunning

And golf course workers?

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