(Video) Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV) The Big Picture: Immigration Halts Around The World

Topic: Immigration Halts Around The World

Guest:

Jitendra Nath Misra, (Former Ambassador)
Prof. Swaran Singh, (Chairperson, Centre for International Politics, JNU)
Alok Bansal, (Director, India Foundation)

Topic Description:

A federal judge in the United States refused to suspend President Donald Trump's recent executive order that put a 60-day ban on green cards for most immigrants due to the coronavirus crisis. Trump's order came last week, after he vowed that he'd halt immigration to the United States during the Covid-19 crisis. But in the end he limited the order to a 60-day freeze on most green cards while still allowing visa-processing for hundreds of thousands of temporary employees like farm workers and crop pickers, who make up the majority of immigrants in the US. As a result of the pandemic, many other countries too have implemented restrictions on entry and exit, visa and work permit issuance, closed borders, tightened quarantine rules and taken other measures to protect themselves.