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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: riverdale-74 on August 14, 2019, 01:53:58 am

Title: Two California counties sue Trump administration over green card rule change for immigrants on welfa
Post by: riverdale-74 on August 14, 2019, 01:53:58 am

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The California jurisdictions claim the rule attempts to abolish decades of legal precedent and “coerces individuals to forgo or withdraw from critical benefits or care.”

ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-california-counties-sue-trump-administration-over-green-card-rule-change-for-immigrants-on-welfare (http://ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/two-california-counties-sue-trump-administration-over-green-card-rule-change-for-immigrants-on-welfare)

So I guess their excuse for becoming involved in a question of federal immigration policy is that illegals in their counties might be deterred from filing for public benefits, because it might harm their legal status in the U.S.

Title: Re: Two California counties sue Trump administration over green card rule change for immigrants on w
Post by: TomSea on August 14, 2019, 09:40:40 am

It's certainly an uphill battle and quite a lot of that going around.