Donald Trump has issued a proclamation that would block indefinitely immigrants in categories the administration failed to eliminate in a bill before the U.S. Senate in February 2018. Economists consider the justification for the president’s action devoid of serious analysis and unconvincing. U.S. citizens will no longer be able to obtain immigrant visas for a parent, adult child or sibling, and the proclamation contains a lit fuse in the form of a 30-day review of H-1B and other temporary visas. In effect, the Trump administration has used the COVID-19 crisis to rewrite immigration law without passing a bill through Congress.
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- 7th Circ. Probes Trump's Challenge Of Ill. Sanctuary Laws October 29, 2026The Seventh Circuit pressed the Trump administration Thursday to address how refusal by Illinois and other sanctuary jurisdictions to help federal officers take custody of immigrants leaving state jails amounts to unlawful interference with federal immigration law, while also expressing skepticism that such cooperation amounts to unconstitutional commandeering of local law enforcement resources.
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