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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 9, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court today rebuffed an effort by Republican state officials to revive a Trump-era policy that barred certain immigrants from gaining lawful permanent residency if they were deemed likely to require government benefits. A group of Republican state attorneys general had challenged a lower court ruling that barred them from seeking to reinstate Trump’s "public charge" rule after the Biden administration rescinded it. The current administration’s action reinstated the previous policy, which defined immigrants as public charges only when they were likely to become primarily dependent on the government for subsistence. U.S. News & World Report has analysis from Reuters.