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By Mario Parker and Justin Sink

August 3, 2020 at 3:00 PM UTC

Updated on

August 3, 2020 at 8:07 PM UTC

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President Donald Trump on Monday barred federal agencies from dismissing U.S. citizens or green card holders and replacing them with foreign workers, and blasted a major state enterprise for having done so.

The executive order Trump signed Monday increases scrutiny of federal contractors’ use of H-1B visas to bring in temporary foreign labor for high-skilled jobs rather than relying on American workers.