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Santa Clara County and San Francisco Formally End Successful Lawsuit Against Trump Rule
sanjoseinside ^ | February 6, 2023 | San Jose Inside

Posted on 02/07/2023 7:41:36 AM PST by artichokegrower

Santa County and San Francisco announced they have voluntarily ended their lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “public charge” rule now that the rule is defunct and cannot be resurrected.

This week’s dismissal, in the “City and County of San Francisco and the County of Santa Clara v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services et al.,” marks the successful conclusion of a four-year legal battle through which the two local governments had blocked a Trump Administration rule which would have required a “wealth test” for immigrants entering the U.S. or going through the naturalization process. At the time, the rule instilled fear in immigrant communities that dissuaded them from participating in civic life or public benefit programs.

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Under the Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2019 announced a rule on “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” that would have upended nearly 140 years of legal precedent. The Trump Administration sought to radically expand the grounds upon which a person could be deemed likely to become a “public charge,” and thus denied a green card or entry into the United States. By design, the rule would have coerced individuals to forgo or withdraw from critical public benefits and care.


Thank goodness the five million plus illegals that have poured across our border since Biden took charge will never depend upon taxpayer support.

1 posted on 02/07/2023 7:41:36 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

When I got my wife her green card, I was Required to sign over my income and assets to guarantee for 10 years(40 quarters) she would not become a Public Charge.

Hey Jim Jordan, about that weaponization of Government committee, aren’t every last county supervisor in these two counties GUILTY of Attempting to STOP the Lawful Function of Government?? Shouldn’t YOU be hauling them before your committee and finding them in CONTEMPT OF THE US CONSTITUTION, then Jailing All of them until the end of this Congressional Session for Inherent Contempt of the American Citizens???


2 posted on 02/07/2023 7:47:02 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: artichokegrower

bttt


3 posted on 02/07/2023 7:57:39 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: artichokegrower

scumbag california politicos are proud of their accomplishment of further screwing the American taxpayers.


4 posted on 02/07/2023 8:02:24 AM PST by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Derelict At Large)
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To: artichokegrower

How did they even have standing to bring suit?


5 posted on 02/07/2023 8:17:24 AM PST by curious7
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