Court upholds ‘public charge’ ruling keeping Trump administration from denying legal status to immigrants – By Aaron Katersky (ABC News) /Aug 5 2020
The term “public charge” is given to people who require assistance.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling that prevents the Trump administration from denying status to immigrants deemed a “public charge” because they receive various types of government assistance.
The ruling, from a three-judge panel of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, has no immediate impact other than to limit the scope of the injunction to Connecticut, New York and Vermont.
The Department of Homeland Security introduced a new public charge rule last year that expanded the number of government benefits that would disqualify a green card applicant. Several courts have heard legal challenges to the public charge rule. In one case that reached the Supreme Court, a 5-4 ruling by the court’s conservative majority in January allowed the rule to go into effect nationwide.
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