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Donald Trump has announced that he is going to ban immigration to the United States to protect that country's labor market . This was announced early Tuesday morning - in a tweet in which he declared that "in view of the attack by the Invisible Enemy, in addition to the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing [sic] an Executive Order to suspend temporarily immigration to the United States. "

The announcement by the President of the United States has caused considerable confusion. Last night Spain time - Washington's first afternoon time - it was still unclear what Trump was going to ban . In principle, "banning immigration" can mean a huge range of actions . Among them is suspending the processing and delivery of work and residence permits (the so-called Green Card), of the naturalizations of foreign citizens, and of all non-tourist visas , concluding those of students since those who are pursuing higher education In the US, they have the option of accessing one year of work in the country.

But the White House did not provide further information. So at press time everything was in limbo . According to a draft of the Executive Order with which the president was to announce the measure to which the Bloomberg news agency had had access, the US would cancel the delivery of work visas for 90 days, with the exception of workers in the sectors of food and health.

In any case, the United States Public Administration is not working, so the processing of residence or nationality permits is paralyzed , among other things by the prohibition of personal interviews to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Added to this is the fact that there are practically no flights to the United States from any country in the world, so there are no immigrants. As immigration attorney Michael Freestone explained yesterday, " You can't help but wonder what the content of the Executive Order is going to be ."

The United States has lost 22 million jobs in a month of coronavirus , that is, as many as it created in the economic expansion that started in 2009 and ended last month. That means one in seven Americans has lost their job. Compared to that number, the roughly 85,000 H-1B work visas that the US issues each year to foreign nationals to work in the country seem irrelevant. Although the figure is somewhat higher if you take into account researchers from universities and non-profit institutions, in total the number of people who would be affected by the decision would be approximately equivalent to the number of jobs that the United States loses in three hours. since the pandemic broke out .

The US, meanwhile, could end the month of April with 50,000 deaths , according to the statistics website FiveThirtyEight. That is the highest number in the world, and could be equivalent to Italy and Spain together. But when the data is examined, the reality is different, since the number of deaths in relation to the population is much lower in the United States . In that country, there are 132 deaths for every million inhabitants, while in Spain the figure reaches 455, that is, the second highest in the world, only behind Belgium, which has 518. Statistics are controversial everywhere . In the US, for example, New York and 10 other states follow much stricter criteria than, for example, California, when computing deaths caused by the disease, so it is very likely that the actual figures are higher than officers. But Spain suffers from similar problems. The result, therefore, is incontrovertible. It is something that Trump focused on last Monday at his press conference, when he said: " Look what has happened to Spain. It is incredible. It is devastated ."

The crisis, however, is having a political cost for Trump , whose popularity is falling again. After the president of the United States had reached the highest levels of approval of his mandate in the first week of the 'bolt-action' for the coronavirus, when 49% of Americans expressed their support for his administration , his support for the head of state and the Government has fallen to 43%. Those are the data from the weekly poll on the popularity of the president carried out by the public opinion analysis company Gallup.

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