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The Trump administration is expected to issue a proposal in coming weeks that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens or get green cards if they have ever used a range of popular public welfare programs, including Obamacare, four sources with knowledge of the plan told NBC News.
The move, which would not need congressional approval, is part of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller's plan to limit the number of migrants who obtain legal status in the U.S. each year.
[...] Though its effects could be far-reaching, the proposal to limit citizenship to immigrants who have not used public assistance does not appear to need congressional approval. As the Clinton administration did in 1999, the Trump administration would be redefining the term "public charge," which first emerged in immigration law in the 1800s in order to shield the U.S. from burdening too many immigrants who could not contribute to society.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 17 2018, @04:04AM
Presumably because the nation states they are coming from lack sufficient physical and social infrastructure to allow them to value-add. Hard to be productive when you are ducking bullets or laid up in bed from poorly treated water.
And in almost all the cases that are relevant to at least the USA's interests, it was their foreign policy failures and frankly war crimes that created the problems in the first place. Supporting brutal dictators, training death squads and arming insurgencies doesn't do wonders for stability, and its rather unfair to expect people to build a prosperous nation when a Superpower rolls over in its sleep and crushes their democratic government and installs a nightmare fashioned from their own paranoia.