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Fighting back on Trump’s cruel public charge plan

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19.09.2026

Donald Trump’s ever-cruel administration is wrongly trying to put up even more roadblocks to block legal immigrants from getting green cards and a coalition of states and cities, led by New York in the persons of Attorney General Tish James and Mayor Mamdani, is correctly fighting back.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the Department of Homeland Security, has proposed a change in the public charge rule, effective today, that says that anyone utilizing basic government benefits like SNAP, Medicaid, and housing assistance can have that used against them when being up for a green card and be rendered inadmissible.

In a pair of lawsuits filed in Manhattan federal court this week, one by states and the other by cities, New York State and New York City and........

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