{"id":3215,"date":"2020-08-09T16:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2020-08-09T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T16:13:46","slug":"a-federal-judge-blocked-trumps-rule-creating-a-wealth-test-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"A federal judge blocked Trump\u2019s rule creating a wealth test for immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The rule is only one of several policies the Trump administration has pursued to dramatically shift which immigrants are legally able to come to the United States. Under Trump, the legal immigration system increasingly rewards skills and wealth over family ties to the US, while shutting out a growing number of people from low-income backgrounds. (Though he has even imposed restrictions<\/a> on skilled immigrants amid the pandemic.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heeding calls from 31 states<\/a> to end refugee admissions from Syria, Trump has slashed the total number of refugees the US accepts annually to just 18,000<\/a> this year, the fewest in history and down from a cap of 110,000 just two years ago. He\u2019s placed restrictions on the citizens of many Muslim-majority and African countries. His travel ban prevents citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and North Korea from obtaining any kind of visa allowing them to enter the US. He also added restrictions<\/a> on immigrants from six additional countries: Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania.”
…
“With the public charge regulation, Trump is painting immigrants as abusing public benefits. But they are actually \u201cless likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans,\u201d according to the Cato Institute<\/a>, a libertarian think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, the average per capita value of public benefits consumed by immigrants was $3,718, as compared to $6,081 among native-born Americans. Noncitizenswere slightly more likely to get cash assistance, SNAP benefits, and Medicaid, but far less likely to useMedicare and Social Security.\u201cThe rhetoric around the use of public benefits programs is largely smoke and mirrors,\u201d Erin Quinn, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told Vox. \u201cIt\u2019s feeding a rhetoric that immigrants are draining our public services when in fact these immigrants don\u2019t even have access to those services and also galvanizing fear in immigrant communities.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/10\/11\/20899253\/trump-public-charge-rule-immigrants-welfare-benefits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The rule is only one of several policies the Trump administration has pursued to dramatically shift which immigrants are legally able to come to the United States. Under Trump, the legal immigration system increasingly rewards skills and wealth over family ties to the US, while shutting out a growing number of people from low-income backgrounds. (Though he has even imposed restrictions on skilled immigrants amid the pandemic.)<\/p>\n

Heeding calls from 31 states to end refugee admissions from Syria, Trump has slashed the total number of refugees the US accepts annually to just 18,000 this year, the fewest in history and down from a cap of 110,000 just two years ago.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s placed restrictions on the citizens of many Muslim-majority and African countries. His travel ban prevents citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and North Korea from obtaining any kind of visa allowing them to enter the US. He also added restrictions on immigrants from six additional countries: Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“With the public charge regulation, Trump is painting immigrants as abusing public benefits. But they are actually \u201cless likely to consume welfare benefits and, when they do, they generally consume a lower dollar value of benefits than native-born Americans,\u201d according to the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.
\nIn 2016, the average per capita value of public benefits consumed by immigrants was $3,718, as compared to $6,081 among native-born Americans. Noncitizens were slightly more likely to get cash assistance, SNAP benefits, and Medicaid, but far less likely to use Medicare and Social Security.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rhetoric around the use of public benefits programs is largely smoke and mirrors,\u201d Erin Quinn, a senior staff attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told Vox. \u201cIt\u2019s feeding a rhetoric that immigrants are draining our public services when in fact these immigrants don\u2019t even have access to those services and also galvanizing fear in immigrant communities.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,25],"class_list":["post-3215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}