, approved in 2019, denied green cards to immigrants if they had relied too much on social welfare programs such as food stamps.
It was in effect about a year, but courts across the country judged it at odds with the Immigration and Naturalization Act, and a district judge in Illinois in November 2020 said it could not be implemented nationwide.Fletcher told the court the incoming Biden administration thought the rule was wrong, as well as ineffective. “We know that it affected only about five of the approximately 50,000 adjustment of status applications to which it was applied,” Fletcher said.
“This was an unprecedented legal maneuver,” Brnovich said. He and other Republican state attorneys general want to intervene to defend the rule, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which covers the West, turned him down. “There’s a kind of mismatch here between what you’re saying went wrong and what you’re saying you want,” said Kagan, adding that Brnovich was “trying to intervene in a suit that’s completely dead that never applied to you in the first place.”
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