Biden expected to allow Trump-era guest worker pause to expire
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President Biden is expected to allow a guest worker visa pause -- first signed by former President Donald Trump last year -- to expire on Wednesday, a move welcomed by big businesses who opposed the ban but opposed by immigration hawks who warn it will hurt American workers.
Signed in the early months of the pandemic, it was not done for public health reasons but to protect the job market -- with the administration estimating it would affect around 600,000 jobs. "In order to ensure that we are hiring Americans first, we are putting a pause on certain non-immigrant visas into the United States," a senior Trump administration official told Fox News at the time, "again for the purpose of ensuring that Americans can get jobs here in the U.S."More Related News