BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration alleging that “unlawful” efforts to alter a longstanding policy are deterring immigrants from receiving public assistance they are entitled to.
In its lawsuit filed Wednesday, Baltimore asserts the Trump administration has expanded the State Department’s longstanding definition of “public charge” to restrict otherwise eligible immigrants from entering the U.S. The change allows consular officers to consider whether green card applicants or their relatives ever benefited from programs offering services like free vaccinations or school lunches.
The city asserts that African immigrants’ participation in the federal Head Start program has “virtually ceased” in Baltimore schools due to the policy change.
Mayor Catherine Pugh says the city is “determined to resist this latest attempt to deprive our immigrant communities of basic services.”
This could get dicey considering how the Left argues, constantly, that immigrants don’t use public, taxpayer-funded resources. We should probably do a better job explaining all the various differences regarding eligibility, especially when we start talking about “relatives” getting benefits, too.
The Balamer people are getting mad at the people from Warshington, hon.
My thoughts, too. So far as I can tell, US citizenship is a prime requirement for welfare, but there’s a widespread belief that huge numbers of non-citizens are receiving welfare.
So, as you point out, the Dems better parse this one carefully so as not to give any credence to this canard.
I don’t care. If resources are illegally being denied to members of society, that needs to be challenged.
Then you need to define “members of society”, because that phrase is not synonymous with “citizenship”.