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David Isaacson, Aug. 20, 2019 “An Act of Cruel Injustice”: If the Trump Administration is Relying on Grudging Court Acceptance of Cruel Results as Support for the New Public Charge Rule, What Does That Say About the Rule? ...

NILC, Aug. 16, 2019 " CONTACT – National Immigration Law Center: Hayley Burgess, 202-384-1279, media@nilc.org – Western Center on Law & Poverty: Courtney McKinney, 214-395-2755, cmckinney@wclp.org – Asian Americans Advancing...

Washington State Office of the Attorney General, Aug. 14, 2019 "Attorney General Bob Ferguson today co-led a coalition of 13 states in filing a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over changes to the “public charge”...

Chris Mills Rodrigo, The Hill, Aug. 13, 2019 "Two California counties on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit against the Trump administration's new "public charge" rule that allows the government to deny entry or green cards to immigrants...

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 "This final rule amends DHS regulations by prescribing how DHS will determine whether an alien applying for admission or adjustment of status is inadmissible to the United States...

Tessa Berenson, Brian Bennett, Time Magazine, Aug. 13, 2019 "Immigration groups vowed to fight a Trump Administration plan to deny green cards to applicants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other forms of public assistance, as experts warned the...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 08/14/2019 "This final rule amends DHS regulations by prescribing how DHS will determine whether an alien applying for admission or adjustment of status is inadmissible to the...

Ted Hesson, Politico, Aug. 6, 2019 "The number of Mexicans refused immigrant visas to the U.S. because they might become dependent on government benefits skyrocketed under President Donald Trump, according to State Department data obtained by POLITICO...

According to FY2018 DOS statistics , "DOS rejected 13,450 applications for immigrant visas in FY2018 based on a determination that the applicant could become a "public charge," a 316 percent increase from FY2017 when it denied 3,237 applications...

From the Center for Migration Studies - "In a comment submitted to the federal government on the proposed rule regarding public charge determinations, the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) argued that the rule was overly broad and would...

Democracy Forward, Nov. 28, 2018 - "Today the City of Baltimore filed suit against the Trump Administration for unlawfully and secretly changing the State Department’s definition of “public charge,” a provision in immigration law...

Seven prominent historians filed this comment with the Federal Register regarding the proposed "Public Charge" rule: "We contend that expanding the public charge grounds of inadmissibility, adjustment of status and deportation would break...

Cyrus Mehta, Oct. 15, 2018 - "The notion of public charge has existed in our immigration laws since more than a century. The Trump administration’s new proposed public charge rule , however, interprets “is likely at any time to become...

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 196 / Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to prescribe how it determines whether an alien is inadmissible to the United States under section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration...

This document is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on 10/10/2018 "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to prescribe how it determines whether an alien is inadmissible to the United States under section 212(a)...