The Supreme Court ruled on Monday to approve the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule for new immigrants. The justices
approved the rule by a vote of 5-4 along ideological lines. “Public charge” has in recent years been defined as a
person dependent on cash assistance programs. The Trump administration
updated the definition in August 2019 to include people likely to
require non-cash government benefits, and sought to implement a
policy limiting the number of new immigrants who would require government assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid. Lower courts have repeatedly blocked the new policy from going into
effect. In early January the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
implemented a nationwide injunction against the policy, which Monday’s Supreme Court decision overrules. “Throughout our history, self-reliance has been a core principle in
America,” then-acting director of U.S. Customs and Immigration Services
Ken Cuccinelli said at a 2019 press conference regarding the new policy.
“The virtues of perseverance, hard work, and self-sufficiency laid the
foundation of our nation and have defined generations of immigrants
seeking opportunity in the United States.” President Trump has made immigration reform a centerpiece of his
agenda, seeking to slow legal immigration and halt illegal immigration
to the U.S. In one of the latest developments, on Thursday the State
Department
announced new guidelines aimed at cracking down on “birth tourism.”Under the Constitution, babies born in the U.S. receive citizenship
even if the parents are foreign citizens visiting the country on a
tourist visa. Around 10,000 babies were born to parents of foreign
citizens in the U.S. as of 2017, the latest year for which data is
available...
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