Gallego kicks off effort to repeal Trump green card policy

5 things to know about the Trump administration’s new green card policy

If the goal was to confuse everyone, the mission was accomplished.  Just before Memorial Day, the Trump administration issued a sweeping new policy directive that took aim at legal immigration. It would have required most temporary visa holders and humanitarian parolees living in the U.S. to return to their home countries to await their green cards.  The memo and accompanying news release bucked a longstanding policy of allowing immigrants to re…

Gallego kicks off effort to repeal Trump green card policy

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) is taking a first step to kill a Trump administration directive to make immigrants go abroad to apply for a green card, pushing to have the policy classified as a rule in order to use an unusual congressional power to quash it. In a letter obtained by The Hill, Gallego asked…