“Do Politicians Realize How Difficult and Rare Immigrating to the U.S. Legally Actually Is?”

“Do Politicians Realize How Difficult and Rare Immigrating to the U.S. Legally Actually Is?”

August 19, 2024 Fiona Danyko

No One Line

September 23, 2019 Joseph McKeown

Cato Institute: “An Explanation of the Public Charge Rule.”

August 20, 2019 Guest User

Last week, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) finalized a regulation that bans so-called “public charges” from obtaining legal status in the United States. The finalized public charge rule, the Cato Institute argues, redefines the “historic meaning” of the term “public charge,” which will likely result in the denial of immigrant and nonimmigrant applications based on “a bureaucrat’s suspicions that they could use welfare.”

The New York Times: “Trump Administration Plans to Close Key Immigration Operations Abroad.”

March 19, 2019 Guest User

Director L. Francis Cissna, of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), recently informed senior staff members that the international division of USCIS operating in more than twenty countries will likely shut down by the end of the year, cutting a key support system for those applying overseas to relocate to the United States. The move to shut down is allegedly intended to provide more resources to handle the lengthy backlog in asylum applications domestically, but it could come at the expense of legal migration.