Trump Administration Proposes Misguided Approach to the Public Charge Rule

Trump Administration Proposes Misguided Approach to the Public Charge Rule

Congress has long sought to prevent potential immigrants from imposing undue fiscal burdens on American taxpayers. To that end, Congress has enacted a law, commonly referred to as the public charge rule, that bars immigration by any person who, in the “opinion” of the government, “is likely at any time to become a public charge.” Unfortunately, the Trump administration recently proposed to implement the rule in a harmful and unnecessarily string…