WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday (Aug 12) that would limit legal immigration by denying ...
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump's administration unveiled a sweeping rule on Monday that would limit legal immigration by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people for being too poor.
The 837-page rule could be the most drastic of all the Trump administration's policies targeting the legal immigration system, experts have said. Advocates for immigrants have criticised the plan as an effort to cut legal immigration without going through Congress to change US law. The new rule defines public charge as an immigrant who receives one or more designated public benefits for more than 12 months, within any 36-month period, according to a fact sheet from USCIS. The benefits would count in the aggregate, such that a receipt of two benefits in one month would count as two months, for example, the fact sheet said.
"The principle driving it is an old American value and that's self-sufficiency," Cuccinelli said in a Fox News interview published on Monday before the White House briefing. Miller, asked in 2017 about whether the administration's policies toward immigration countered that American inscription, said the words were not original to the monument.
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