Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that had kept in place a nationwide hold on the policy following lawsuits against it. ADFederal appeals courts in San Francisco and Richmond, Virginia, had previously overturned trial court rulings against the rules. AD“The public charge rule is the latest attack in the Trump administration’s war on immigrants,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration expert at Cornell University’s law school. This rule is another brick in the invisible wall this administration is building to curb legal immigration.”ADRoughly 544,000 people apply for green cards annually. “What’s sad is that the harm that’s done while the rule is in effect can’t be undone,” Welber said.

Source: Washington Post January 27, 2020 18:33 UTC