Major Green Card Change Would Impact Immigrants on Government Benefits
Welfare,Medicaid,Food Stamps,Immigration,Green Cards,DHS
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The Trump administration said Thursday that it plans to place limits on the issuance of green cards to immigrants who have used government benefits, undoing a Biden-era policy.
The rule pulls back a 2022 regulation that narrowly defined how "public charge" determinations should be made and limited the public benefits that immigration officers could weigh against immigrants seeking legal permanent residency.
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