Washington (September 25, 2018) [Excerpt from a National Review Online article by Mark Krikorian]– Making sure that we admit as immigrants only people who can support themselves is the first principle of American immigration law. And I don't just mean that it's foundational as theory, but also chronologically — Massachusetts prohibited the admission of paupers in 1645. This principle was incorporated into the first general federal law regulating immigration, the Immigration Act of 1882. That law banned immigrants likely to become a "public charge," that is, dependent on taxpayer funds for their support. For the entire Ellis Island period and beyond, this was the main reason people seeking to immigrate to the United States were turned away. Current law (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(4)) says that any alien applying abroad for a visa, or wanting to upgrade to a green card from within the country, who "is likely at any time to become a public charge is inadmissible." Over the weekend, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the DHS bureau that deals with green cards and citizenship, released the draft of a proposed rule spelling out in detail how the public-charge principle should be applied to those applying green cards. View the full article: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/immigration-public-charge-rule-food-stamps-public-housing-welfare/
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