Posted on 03/10/2021 7:08:01 AM PST by SJackson
The Biden administration on Tuesday stopped enforcing the 2019 "public charge" restrictions on green cards, unraveling the centerpiece of former President Donald Trump's efforts to restrict legal immigration.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said his department had halted the implementation of the 2019 "public charge" regulation following the reinstatement of a federal court order blocking the Trump-era policy. Earlier on Tuesday, the Justice Department notified courts across the country, including the Supreme Court, that it would no longer defend the Trump administration's public charge regulation.
Advocates had strongly denounced the policy, which granted U.S. officials broader discretion to reject green card applications from immigrants the government found were relying — or at risk of relying — on public benefits, like food stamps.
"The 2019 public charge rule was not in keeping with our nation's values," Mayorkas said in a statement. "It penalized those who access health benefits and other government services available to them."
Last month, President Biden instructed the Department of Homeland Security to review the public charge rule and other Trump-era limits on legal immigration. On Tuesday, DHS said it had determined as part of the review that defending the rule against the flurry of lawsuits it garnered from states, local jurisdictions and advocacy groups was "neither in the public interest nor an efficient use of limited government resources."
Don't enforce it.
Especially when it comes to foreigners.
Essentially. Isn’t that impeachable?
“The 2019 public charge rule was not in keeping with our nation’s values”
What’s the “We” crap, foreigner?
Mayorkas came from Cooba supposedly on a temporary basis.
I guess he got used to living in Beverly Hills. Oh the Pain of Leaving Habana.
Public charge rules have been a part of American limits on immigration for centuries, but this guy wouldn’t know that cuz as the English Sheriff said, he ain’t “from these here parts”.
Nobody started the country in an effort to attract freeloaders.
1. The Supreme Court should hear the case anyway.
2. PHUK YOU Joe, I spent almost $10,000 Dollars to get my Wife her Green Card LEGALLY and had to GUARANTEE her Full Support for 10 years.
People like you don’t vote for democrats, thus the change in policy. Bring in those happy to live on the public dole. IMO they’re the deplorables.
Not when both parties agree on turning the USA into the world’s boarding house.
Try going to Mexico and telling them you want to immigrate key and egg Mexican welfare. Oh, and free medical care and a free education.
But burdening the working citizens with feeding and providing medical care and shelter to non-citizens *is* in keeping with our nation's values? What are those values, exactly? That citizens are fodder for the political class to do with as they will?
Having been born on the Gadsden Purchase, and raised next door to Mexico, and even having Mexican relatives, I can safely tell you that no gringo would ever get state medical care in Mexico (they do have it, but it’s a joke) and their “education” system runs out at about 3rd grade, and is decidedly NOT open to foreigners (Los Blue Eyes).
The one attitude in Mexico that is a constant is “ju owe us, Greengo, ju tooks our land!”.
As if anything would be different had Polk not won the war.
The public charge exclusion has been around since the 1700s. Thousands of immigrants who arrived at El's Island were promptly put back on their ships and returned to their homeland.
The law was enforced until the 1970s when the INS changed its enforcement priorities. This coincided with a mass increase in both legal and illegal migration.
Like I said, Al-eh-HAN-dro ain’t from these here parts, so he wouldn’t know that.
He just blubbers “my peeples! you have to FEED them!”
It’s a never ending grift by the thug culture from the south.
Except the “public charge” policy has been there for decades.
I first encountered it preprinted on the INS forms we filled out for my new wife’s “Green Card” in 1978.
The actual policy of not letting destitute persons become dependent on public welfare goes back to pre-revolution colonial times. One of the duties of county sheriffs was to contact newly indigent persons and warn them against becoming public charges.
The only thing that PDJT did was make immigration officials really start enforcing the law.
bttt
Biden ****administration****
Biden isn’t doing anything CBS just let the cat out of the bag we will never know who’s running the show a cast of many.
Any funds spent on or given to a foreign national should simply be deducted from any foreign aid going to the country in question.
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