{"id":322493,"date":"2020-04-22T03:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T03:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322493"},"modified":"2020-04-22T03:47:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T03:47:32","slug":"president-donald-trump-suspends-issuing-of-new-green-cards-for-60-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-donald-trump-suspends-issuing-of-new-green-cards-for-60-days\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump suspends issuing of new Green Cards for 60 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-321562 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump.jpg 685w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/donald-trump-566x420.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/>President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he will halt issuing of fresh Green Cards or legal permanent residency for the next 60 days as part of his executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;By pausing immigration, we will help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs as America re-opens.&#8221; Trump said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis pause on new immigration will also help to conserve medical resources for our citizens as we fight this virus,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Trump said the order would only apply to individuals seeking a permanent residency. It will not have any impact on those entering the country on a temporary basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This move will impact tens of thousands of Indian Americans who are awaiting green cards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Trump in a tweet said that he will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!\u201d Trump had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 40,000 people have lost their lives in the US due to COVID-19 and over 750,000 have been infected from virus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he will halt issuing of fresh Green Cards or legal permanent residency for the next 60 days as part of his executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the US. &#8220;By pausing immigration, we will help put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs as America re-opens.&#8221; Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[64,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322494,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322493\/revisions\/322494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}