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Despite the Republican Party controlling both houses of Congress for the last two years, the Trump administration has failed in its efforts to push through legislation that would reduce legal immigration levels. Now, it is trying to use the regulatory process to bypass Congress and accomplish the same goal. The regulations proposed by the administration would make it harder for working- and middle-class people to immigrate legally to the United States by denying them green cards and visas based on government predictions that they are “likely” to receive Medicaid coverage or other means-tested public benefits at any time in the future.¹

 

 

Most immigrants at risk of being denied a green card under the proposed test have not received public assistance

News stories about the proposal have commonly run headlines suggesting that immigrants will be denied green cards if they have received benefits.²⁵ The truth is, however, that most of the people who would be denied green cards and other visas under the revised test have never received any public benefits in the United StatES.

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