Supreme Court to hear case on state efforts to revive a Trump immigration policy
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up an effort by Republican officials to revive a Trump administration effort that denied green cards to immigrants considered likely to become overly dependent on government benefits.
The Department of Homeland Security announced in 2019 that it would expand the definition of "public charge," to be applied to people whose request to become lawful permanent residents could be denied because of a concern they would primarily depend on the government for their income.
In the past, the designation was largely based on an assessment that an immigrant would be dependent upon cash benefits. But the Trump administration broadened the definition to include non-cash benefits such as Medicaid, supplemental nutrition and federal housing assistance.
Anyone who would be likely to require that broader range of help for more than 12 months in any three-year period was swept into the expanded definition.
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AZLD4Candidate
(5,639 posts)salary.
More xenophobic idiocy by the "protectors of liberty and freedom."
Republicans have no problems giving billions to other countries, but lose their minds if a penny goes to a foreigner. . .hell, if a penny goes to anyone that isn't in the upper 5% of the social class.
iluvtennis
(19,822 posts)former administration on the current administration
Ford_Prefect
(7,867 posts)The idea is that Federal Authority is determined and limited according to State legislation and the powers that the States claim through them. Very much of the Federalist Society BS.
Polybius
(15,328 posts)It really is insanity.
Calista241
(5,585 posts)We shouldnt be surprised it backfires on us on occasion.
We just need to have all our Is dotted and Ts crossed before ending programs.
maxrandb
(15,287 posts)we aren't going to have to settle this via another Civil War.
This time, we won't screw the pooch on reconstruction.
The United States CANNOT continue to function like this.
It's time to take the gloves off.
Maybe every military base and federal official should be pulled out of states like Florida, Texas and South Carolina. We can't have federal officials and the military subject to the whims of what laws a state thinks it needs to follow.
Closing the military bases in these states is a national security issue. Better to close them, vice having to defend them from these nut jobs.