Authored by Sandro Galea and Nason Maani.
The Trump administration’s announcement earlier this week of the extension of a visa ban to cover non-immigrant visas including H-1B, H-2B and some J and L visas resulted in opposition from leaders in science and commerce, who claimed this would make the U.S. less competitive, hampering science, education, economic growth and job creation.
The presidential proclamation, entitled “Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak,” claims that to allow such “aliens” to enter the country would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” This is in contrast to the opinion of most experts, including the editorial pages of reliably business-friendly newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, who suggest that this proclamation would in itself be harmful to the U.S. economy. We agree that this move is self-defeating for a U.S. economy already in dire straits.
Read the full piece on The Hill.
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