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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Republican Defense of Trump-Era ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Policy
Breitbart ^ | 10 Jan 2023 | JORDAN DIXON-HAMILTON

Posted on 01/11/2023 11:01:30 AM PST by SoConPubbie

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a petition filed by 14 Republican-led states that challenged President Joe Biden’s revocation of the Trump-era “public charge” immigration rule.

The public charge rule relates to welfare-dependent immigration and prohibits migrants from staying in the country if it is determined they are likely to use welfare programs.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump’s administration expanded the definition of “public charge” to include “in-kind” government benefits, such as retirement, welfare, health, disability, and assisted housing, among others.

In March 2021, Biden ended the Trump expansion, instead reverting to a less restrictive definition that limits “public charge” considerations to cash benefits.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led the lawsuit, along with attorneys general from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia.

The crux of the legal challenge was whether the Republican-led states could intervene and defend Trump’s expansion of the “public charge” policy before Biden’s reversal. The states petitioned the Supreme Court for review because lower courts held that it was too late for states to intervene.

Although SCOTUS blocked their challenge, Paxton recently filed another lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s changes to the public charge rule.

As Breitbart News detailed:

“The Biden Administration has demonstrated its intent not to enforce the law and to open the borders to illegal aliens who will be dependent upon welfare benefits,” a press release from Paxton’s office obtained by Breitbart News says.

Normally, immigrants provide financial proof that they would not sap taxpayer funds. The Biden administration’s rule “prevents consideration of statutorily required factors when determining whether an alien is likely to become a ‘public charge.’”


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: trump

1 posted on 01/11/2023 11:01:30 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Elections and immigration. The third rail of the USSC.


2 posted on 01/11/2023 11:10:16 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: SoConPubbie

How is that Trump packed USSC working out for us? If it were even possible to fix this country it would have to start with impeaching most of the USSC justices for not defending the constitution or the country.

The Federal government shall protect the US from invasion. It can’t be any more plane than that.


3 posted on 01/11/2023 11:11:15 AM PST by Revel
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To: SoConPubbie

Five to six million illegal aliens (immigrants, if you wish to be politically correct), and counting. By the end of the Biden administration, we would be looking at illegal entries into the U.S. of between 10 and 15 million illegals (no doubt there would be a rush to get in in the last few months of Biden’s presidency).

All of that will be costing the U.S. taxpayers somewhere between 10 and 15 trillion dollars in the next 10 years. They are not only illegal, but they are robbing from our pockets (it’s not the government’s money; it’s the people’s money).


4 posted on 01/11/2023 11:14:01 AM PST by adorno
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To: blackdog

Well, the fact is we don’t want the opposition party that is out of power to be able to interfere with decisions that are the sole province of the Executive branch. That would be a terrible development. Forget all about rolling back any stuff that clowns like Obama and Biden implement with EOs when they can’t get it through Congress.

The proper thing to do is, if you want to make something like this permanent, to pass actual legislation about it.


5 posted on 01/11/2023 11:16:38 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

The cowardice of the Supreme Court sickens me. This case could have, and should have been taken, if for no other reason that to give the appearance that the Court gives a shat concerning what is happening in the USA


6 posted on 01/11/2023 11:23:10 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Boogieman

“if you want to make something like this permanent, to pass actual legislation about it.”

Agreed

Al the EO stuff, “rules” and enforcement restraints are just a who’s-in-charge-gets-their-way shiiteshow.

Our problem is the go-alog RINOs, not some EO that needs to be rescinded.
Get a LAW passed, then you can do something about it.


7 posted on 01/11/2023 11:24:08 AM PST by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: SoConPubbie

Nonsense.

This “rule” is a creature of the Executive Branch, changeable at will.

The States are asking the USSC to make policy. That’s not their job. The whole point of appointing conservative justices was to get them out of policy making.


8 posted on 01/11/2023 11:26:09 AM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: SoConPubbie

About five years ago, the second largest publicly funded
project, second only to the Big Dig, was the Los Angeles
school system’s building of new schools.

They couldn’t build them fast enough to hold all the illegal
immigrant children entering the region and needing to attend
school.

Cities, counties, regions, states, and the federal government
are being forced to cover the massive costs of illegal
immigration.


9 posted on 01/11/2023 11:33:22 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Revel

^5


10 posted on 01/11/2023 11:48:30 AM PST by TygertLane (One World Order)
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To: SoConPubbie

SCOTUS is not our friend


11 posted on 01/11/2023 11:56:14 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SoConPubbie

The U.S. Supreme Court is swampy.


12 posted on 01/11/2023 12:41:24 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: SoConPubbie

So much for the law and constitution. Lazy, ignorant, corrupt judges precede the death of a nation.


13 posted on 01/11/2023 12:49:56 PM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The SCOTUS is now controlled by and is a rubber stamp for Deep State.


14 posted on 01/11/2023 12:50:47 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: SoConPubbie
Maybe the simple solution to the law-breakers being allowed to slip through the gates, and harvest "Los Freebies" is the way it was handled in the old West:

$1000 for every Illegal Captured/Turned in (condition not important)

15 posted on 01/11/2023 2:59:19 PM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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