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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) is asking President Trump to suspend a number of foreign visa worker programs while more than 26 million Americans are unemployed due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

President Trump signed an executive order slowing some green card processing, though a prior draft of the order was much more expansive and broad, Breitbart News has learned.

Another tough week for American workers.

President Trump says his upcoming executive order to pause most legal immigration to the United States will ensure that the roughly 22 million unemployed Americans will be “first in line” for jobs when the nation reopens in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. 

A pair of New York City residents set up a fund where New Yorkers who work from home can donate their commuting fares to laid-off workers in need of the money.

Democrats are slamming President Trump’s plan to temporarily stop legal immigration to the U.S. during the coronavirus outbreak.

Gov. Jim Justice praised President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak while warning of a looming “full-fledged depression.”

More than eight-in-ten American adults call mass migration at least a “threat” to the United States, a survey finds.

A survey by the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research reports that “less than half of Los Angeles County residents — 45% compared with 61% in mid-March — still hold a job” thanks to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Labor Department announced today that 5.2 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing the total over the last four weeks to 22 million — or 14 percent of the people employed prior to this crisis.

Another week of job destruction across the United States.

The Chinese coronavirus has brought unemployment to about ten million Americans in just weeks. In past times of unemployment, such depressions have been met with record low immigration levels. 

The Agriculture Department and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows are reportedly eyeing a plan to depress farmworker wages for the agricultural lobby in the midst of mass unemployment spurred by the Chinese coronavirus crisis. 

In a Friday interview on Fox Business Channel’s “Mornings with Maria,” Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia weighed in on the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the United States economy and employment as nearly 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment in the last three weeks.

A staggering 16.8 million Americans have been thrown onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks.

Foreign workers brought to the United States on the H-2A and H-2B visa programs, through a fast-tracked process by the State Department, will only undergo additional medical screening if they have symptoms of the Chinese coronavirus, Breitbart News has learned.

“This is a huge, unprecedented, devastating hit,” Yellen said. “My hope is that we will get back to business as quickly as possible.”

The United States does not need any more foreign labor imported for businesses during record joblessness as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says. 

The tidal wave of jobless claims has overwhelmed the systems in New York and elsewhere.

The debate over how long America’s economy should be kept in a medically-induced coma while we “socially distance” to fight the Wuhan coronavirus is usually phrased as a choice between saving lives and mitigating economic damage.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce reported Friday that one in four small businesses had closed temporarily due to the coronavirus outbreak — but more than half remained optimistic about an eventual recovery.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is halting efforts to bring more H-2B foreign visa workers to the United States to take nonagricultural jobs after mounting public opposition.

Working Michiganders displaced by the coronavirus pandemic are confronting a new frustration: A failing unemployment computer system.

More than 6.6 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week.

The administration of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is struggling to keep up with the demands of the coronavirus pandemic after the computer system for managing unemployment claims crashed on Tuesday.

Despite mass unemployment of Americans during the Chinese coronavirus crisis, federal agencies are accelerating the speed at which foreign workers will be imported to the United States to take blue-collar industry jobs. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham told Breitbart News exclusively on Thursday that he is calling on governors, especially those in red states, to develop a fix to an unemployment loophole in the massive $2 trillion coronavirus rescue passage.

We will likely see more jobs lost before we begin to turn things around. But it is useful to remember that we can. And the clearest proof is in the very recent past.

Graham joined a few other Republican senators to object to bolstered unemployment benefits in the economic rescue bill.

A Fed official warns that the U.S. could see unemployment rise to levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Coronavirus is already having a massive effect on the economy of Norway, with the unemployment rate more than doubling to 164,000 people.

There remain about 11.5 million Americans who are out of work, sitting on the labor market sidelines, all of whom want full-time, high-wage jobs without being forced to compete against a growing number of cheaper, foreign workers.

Economists had been expecting 177,000 jobs in February.

The coronavirus has roiled financial markets but the labor market remains very strong.

Ivanka Trump and Larry Kudlow praised President Donald Trump’s tight labor market during a February 28 CPAC 2020 event. 

The Swedish Employment Service has warned that migrant unemployment rates are set to dramatically increase to the worst levels since the 1990s in a new report.