More states must stand with New York, Connecticut and Vermont by challenging this discrimination against legal immigrants.
New York, Connecticut and Vermont announced Tuesday that they have filed a lawsuit against the federal agencies that are set to implement the Trump administration's xenophobic and racist"public charge" immigration rule.
But at every turn, time unveiled these policies and laws for what they were: proxies for racism and xenophobia. And just like every public charge law that has come since, it was tied to discrimination and bigotry. These laws were racist and xenophobic then, and they remain so today.gives the Department of Homeland Security vast powers to deny immigration status to people who apply for or receive any of a wide array of public benefits. According to the 837-page regulation, the U.S.
Paired with this religious bigotry and xenophobia were questions of self-reliance. Were the immigrants undeservedly deriving benefits from their new home? Would they lower the quality of America? Now, the Trump administration's expanded rule is adding public programs like Medicaid and food stamps, which didn't exist until the mid-20th century, to the factors used to weed out potential"public charges."
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