The president announced the suspension in a tweet on April 20. Shortly after 10 p.m. EST on April 20, President Donald Trump announced that he would be signing an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States.
While immigration itself had not yet been suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a process that has been made more difficult due to travel restrictions and closures at the Canada and Mexico borders.The announcement comes as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States approaches 800,000, sitting just over 786,000 as of April 20.
More than 42,000 people have died in the United States from COVID-19, according to the most recent data from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.RELAT