This isn’t Trump’s first move to use coronavirus as an excuse to limit immigration. His administration had already, in recent weeks, slowed visa processing, imposed travel restrictions on people from China and most of Europe, and put in place even more brutal treatment of asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants trying to come to the U.S. This, though, would be a significant expansion, The New York Times reports: “A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days, according to several people familiar with the plan.”

In other words, what Stephen Miller has been pushing for all along.

Guess what, though? The plan is to exempt migrant farmworkers and healthcare workers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Excluding the former would quickly show the importance of immigrants to the U.S. workforce, showing the lie of “they’re taking our jobs” rhetoric, and excluding the latter would be a real problem for the Trump administration’s efforts to justify the policy in court (there will definitely be a legal challenge) by saying it’s all about keeping people safe from COVID-19.

“President Trump now seeks to distract us from his fumbled COVID-19 response by trying to put the blame on immigrants. The truth is many immigrants are on our front lines, protecting us as doctors, nurses, health aids, farmworkers, and restaurant workers,” Rep. Jerry Nadler tweeted. “We need to come together to beat this disease, not attack each other and divide the country. This is a disgrace—demonizing so many of those who are serving on the front lines against COVID while the President shows himself as small and ineffective.”

”Tonight we have crossed 790,000 infections and 42,000 dead. This corrupt buffoon will try any poisonous distraction and blame anyone to deflect from his failures that are killing our fellow Americans,” according to Rep. Bill Pascrell of New Jersey.

They’re not wrong.