GOP Senators Ask Trump to Pause Visas to Protect Jobs Lost Due to CCP Virus

A masked worker at this state WIN job center holds an unemployment benefit application form as she waits for a client in Pearl, Miss., on April 21, 2020. Rogelio V. Solis/AP Photo

Four Republican senators have written to President Donald Trump, pressing that he suspend issuing guest work visas to compensate for the jobs lost due to the CCP virus pandemic.

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Trump on May 7 urging him to extend and expand his April 22 proclamation on immigration that suspended entry of those immigrants who posed a risk to the U.S. labor market already struggling due to the pandemic.