On Monday, after a daily coronavirus press briefing, Trump announced his newest plan to fight unemployment: ban all immigration. On Twitter, he wrote, "In light of the attack from the Invisible Enemy, as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens, I will be signing an Executive Order to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States!"

Trump may be trying to appear decisive as the stock market looks poised to take another brutal pummeling—on Monday, U.S. oil future prices dropped below zero for the first time in history, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 500 points in response the next day. When asked by Politico what prompted the decision, a Department of Homeland Security official tersely replied, "22 million unemployed Americans and counting due to Covid-19." The rise in unemployment though is caused by layoffs, furloughs, and businesses closing—not immigration. And restricting it could cause other problems. Currently, the U.S. is facing a doctor shortage, particularly in rural communities, and restricting immigration more may worsen the situation during a pandemic. Similarly, American farmers were already warning that the Trump administration's restrictions on guest workers would likely cause food shortages.

Trump's newest immigration ban comes after Fox News host Tucker Carlson spent weeks pushing for exactly that decision, saying things like, "The current president has the power to cut legal immigration in order to protect the nation," and simply, "We need to stop this."

But it's not welcome news for all of Fox News's hosts. Ainsley Earhardt of Fox & Friends lamented the decision on Tuesday morning, pointing out how it will affect her personally:

Many families here, including mine, we have au pairs. And we rely on them. I go to work at three o'clock in the morning, so I need her there and I need her in my house so that she can help me with my daughter. So many families rely on child care from other countries. These au pairs come here on work visas, they have to go back to their countries to get the visas renewed, and we've been talking in my house about how that's gonna happen. So these are all things, these are questions that we have that hopefully the president will roll out a plan and we'll all be informed about how this is gonna affect all of our lives.

There are an estimated 2 million domestic workers in the U.S., mostly immigrants and women of color. One of Trump's earliest responses to the coronavirus outbreak was to restrict immigration and travel, a move that health experts warned wouldn't be nearly as effective as instituting widespread testing.

The White House is still interfering with states' ability to get desperately needed protective personal equipment (PPE) for health-care workers and Trump still refuses to use the Defense Production Act to ramp up manufacturing of PPE. Governors of southern states like Tennessee and Georgia are following Trump's directions to reverse stay-at-home orders against the advice of public health experts, lifting closing orders on gyms, barbers, and movie theaters—and the president is inciting small groups of protestors to rebel against stay-at-home orders in other states. Meanwhile, states are still struggling to even test for the disease. Testing and stay-at-home orders are scientific necessities in attempting to control the outbreak, which is now in all 50 states, but the president has stayed focused on immigrants instead. Unsurprisingly, the U.S. remains the global epicenter for the pandemic, with 787,960 confirmed cases and 42,364 deaths.