Low-income immigrants are at greater risk of deportation starting Monday

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Starting Monday, low-income immigrants who are on public benefits— or will one day need them— will be denied a visa or green card, despite having entered the U.S. legally.

 The Trump administration’s new “public charge rule” — which favors wealthier immigrants seeking permanent status and puts the poor at a disadvantage, analysts and scholars say— will keep people who need food stamps, housing vouchers, Supplemental Social Security Income and Medicaid from getting their green cards because they’d be considered a financial burden to the U.S.
 

 

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article240486616.html

Edited February 22, 2020 by ALFKAD

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13 minutes ago, ALFKAD said:

 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article240486616.html

 

    Is this a hypothetical scenario? I'm curious how the low income immigrants entered the US legally without a visa or green card. 

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14 minutes ago, Steeleballz said:

 

    Is this a hypothetical scenario? I'm curious how the low income immigrants entered the US legally without a visa or green card. 

Of course they had a Visa.   But the requirements are being raised, it seems.

 

Also...

 

Though the process has always weighed factors such as income, education, health status and skills, under the new rule, USCIS will consider whether applicants have received public assistance for more than a year within the previous three years in order to determine if the applicant can gain legal status.

If the government foresees that a new applicant will one day need government assistance in order to survive, the application will be denied. Depending on the case, removal proceedings can follow.