This policy change is part of the Trump administration’s overall strategy of making life as miserable as possible for immigrants regardless of status
Trump’s chief immigration restrictionist Stephen Miller strikes again. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images In a long-proposed and highly controversial policy change sure to attract a host of lawsuits, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a proposed new regulation expanding restrictions on federally funded cash benefits for large groups of legal immigrants to include non-cash benefits like food stamps, health-care benefits, and housing assistance.
Aside from expanding the scope of benefits that can lead to a rejected visa or green-card application, the new rule would redefine the amount of public assistance that would trigger the “public charge” label from half of total income to a flat amount representing 15 percent of the federal poverty line, or, at current levels, $1,821. So we’re not talking about a lot of assistance.
Monday’s regulation is likely to meet legal challenges, but it could still cause some who fear retribution to alter their daily lives.About one in seven adults in immigrant families reported that either the person or a family member did not participate in a non-cash safety net program last year because of fear of risking his or her green card status in the future, an Urban Institute study found.
There’s a broader difference of perspective this approach reflects: between those who believe public assistance, especially of the non-cash variety, is a good in itself in terms of its impact on public health and economic opportunity, and those who view this safety net as inherently corrosive of individual initiative and a form of redistribution of the hard-earned resources of U.S. citizens toward the undeserving poor, immigrant or native.
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