Posted on 04/21/2020 4:52:15 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The White House is currently facing an internal battle over President Trump’s announcement Monday night that he will sign an executive order temporarily halting immigration amid the coronavirus outbreak. The details of the order had not been finalized as of Tuesday morning, causing frantic debate over which groups of immigrants will be exempt from the ban.
Immigration restrictionists have been trying to sell the president on the idea of a ban for at least a week, pointing to various polling that shows it is popular among voters due to fears of the spread of COVID-19 and the high unemployment numbers in the US. Twenty-two million people thus far have filed for unemployment as the economy has practically shut down because of social distancing measures. However, some members of the administration were angry that the president announced the ban on Twitter. They immediately began scrambling to take control over the details.
Sources familiar with the situation told The Spectator that the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is one of the loudest voices pushing back on a full ban and is seeking to carve out exemptions for refugees, temporary workers under the H1B visa program, and farmworkers under the H-2A visa program. These provisions, one source warned, would defeat the purpose of protecting Americans unemployed due to the COVID crisis. The New York Times, however, reported that the president intends to announce Tuesday evening that he will only temporarily halt the issuance of green cards, hardly the sweeping halt advocates were pushing for.
A senior White House official disputes this version of events and says that Jared has been supportive of the president’s policy.
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Kushner needs to go
Anon sources says what? Fake news.
I don’t believe this for one second.
Go with your gut Mr. President, ignore your son-in-law.
Again with the unnamed sources? Back to business as usual for Ye Olde Fake Needed Media.
Yeah I’m sure he’s gonna argue with his father in law . Fake news .
I believe it’s fake news. Kushner licks Trumps shoes and would not go against daddy in law.
Fake Needed Media? What the hell, auto-correct? You don’t think I meant to say Fake News Media after all this time?
Jared Kuckner
These evil lear jet libs needs to be removed by force.
Jared and Ivanka have done more damage than the Dems .
How many Lefties have they hired and good people run off .
They are Reelection poison .
Fake news. Who is the “source”. Likely only another fake news “journalist”. What a joke.
fake news.
but Javanka is not MAGA - they are more concerned about their social lives, networking connections and making deals after the leave the administration - and that’s BS
Lol
One casualty of the Trump administration is that the word “sources” means nothing anymore :-)
I agree. Not a Kushner fan — to me, he resembles Damien from Omen III — but I seriously doubt he would be so dumb as to tick off someone who is not only his father-in-law, but also the President of the United States.
The Spectator is a conservative publication.
I didn’t vote for Kushner or sweet t*ts.
Is someone still leaking????
Fake News....
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