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States Sue Trump Administration for Going After Low-Income Green Card Holders
the city of Baltimore sued the administration to prevent the change and protect its immigrant population.
Three months later, the administration sought to get the lawsuit dismissed. It wasn’t dismissed.
Instead, in March of this year,
19 states as well as
17 counties and cities,
10 national civil rights organizations and
five Maryland-based immigrant-advocacy groups
filed amicus briefs explaining exactly how much damage the proposed new regulations would do.
over the past few weeks, the urgency of the case has only grown;
for what was only a possible threat when Baltimore first filed its lawsuit is now on the verge of becoming a devastating reality.
Last week, after months of public comments –
266,000 were filed, the vast majority in opposition to the new public charge rules –
the Department of Homeland Security published the
new regulations—all 837 pages of them
—in the Federal Register.
On October 15, barring court intervention, they will become the law of the land.
the rule change turns
any legal immigrant who uses any public services into a potential deportation target
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, and
it overrides decades of immigration policy set by Congress to establish the economic and racial immigration priorities of Trumpism.
Of all the power grabs this extra-legal administration has embarked upon over the past three years,
this is by far the most brazen and the most far-reaching in its implications.
The rule change effectively bypasses Congress, which is cons utionally charged with setting immigration policy, to rewrite more than half a century of U.S. immigration law.
immigration officers will effectively be empowered to ignore family unification priorities in the granting or denial of visas, and
to close the U.S. off to low-income would-be-immigrants; and
domestic bureaucracies will be encouraged to effectively
exclude millions of existing immigrants already in the country from any access to temporary nutritional, health care or housing assistance.
It sets up a cascading series of public health and economic calamities that will take decades to undo.
https://truthout.org/articles/states...-card-holders/
