Most of the 800,000 immigrants currently waiting for a green card to build a permanent home in the US are Indian citizens
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are escorted onstage by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Motera Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. President Trump has ordered a 60-day halt in issuing green cards to prevent people from immigrating to the United States, backing away from his harder-edged plans to suspend guest worker programs after business groups erupted in anger at the prospect of losing labor from countries like India, but as millions of Americans file for unemployment, flooding food banks and hospitals, foreign workers worry that the pandemic will uproot them sooner rather than later. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
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