Trump’s Public-Charge Crackdown Opens a New Legal War
The administration’s expanded public-charge rule was already drawing lawsuits and condemnation on August 13, 2019, after the White House and DHS rolled out a policy that would make it much easier to deny green cards to legal immigrants who have used or are likely to use public benefits. The rollout gave Trump a fresh anti-immigrant message, but it also handed opponents a clean argument that the government was redefining self-sufficiency in a way that punishes low-income families and chills the use of health and nutrition programs.
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Trump’s Public-Charge Crackdown Opens a New Legal War
The administration’s expanded public-charge rule was already drawing lawsuits and condemnation on August 13, 2019, after the White House and DHS rolled out a policy that would make it much easier to deny green cards to legal immigrants who have used or are likely to use public benefits. The rollout gave Trump a fresh anti-immigrant message, but it also handed opponents a clean argument that the government was redefining self-sufficiency in a way that punishes low-income families and chills the …
The administration’s expanded public-charge rule was already drawing lawsuits and condemnation on August 13, 2019, after the White House and DHS rolled out a policy that would make it much easier to deny green cards to legal immigrants who have used or are likely to use public benefits. The rollout gave Trump a fresh anti-immigrant message, but it also handed opponents a clean argument that the government was redefi…
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