{"id":109079,"date":"2021-03-09T17:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=109079"},"modified":"2021-03-09T17:32:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:32:30","slug":"biden-justice-department-stops-defending-trump-rule-that-limits-benefits-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/biden-justice-department-stops-defending-trump-rule-that-limits-benefits-for-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Justice Department stops defending Trump rule that limits benefits for immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court that it will no longer defend a Trump administration rule that made it more difficult for immigrants to obtain permanent residency if they were likely to need benefits like Medicaid, food stamps or federal housing aid.<\/li>\n<li>The move is the latest in a series of decisions by the DOJ to drop positions taken by the department during President Donald Trump&#x27;s administration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department of Justice on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that it will no longer defend a Trump administration rule that put limits on immigrants seeking permanent U.S. residency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#x27;s White House made the so-called public charge rule tougher on immigrants if they were likely to need non-cash benefits like Medicaid, food stamps or federal housing aid.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest in a series of decisions by the Justice Department after President Joe Biden took office in January to drop positions taken by the department during President Donald Trump&#x27;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>It comes a month after the Supreme Court allowed the modification of the public charge rule to take effect while a decision on an injunction against the rule was pending in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>It was longstanding federal policy, before Trump took office, to consider whether an immigrant was likely to need cash assistance or long-term hospitalization in determining whether to grant that person permanent residency status.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration moved to expand that definition to include non-cash benefits, such as Medicaid, which provides health coverage to primarily low-income people.<\/p>\n<p>A number of federal district courts around the U.S. had blocked the rule from taking effect.<\/p>\n<p>But the Trump administration successfully overturned those injunctions on appeal to circuit courts of appeal, and ultimately at the Supreme Court in late January.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/09\/biden-doj-stops-defending-trump-rule-that-limits-benefits-for-immigrants.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court that it will no longer defend a Trump administration rule that made it more difficult for immigrants [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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