PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
April 26, 2022 |
Representatives Espaillat, Clarke, Chu Call on DHS to Expand Immigrant Access to Public Benefits. Lawmakers Provide Public Comment to Notice to Replace Trump-era Public Charge Rule. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Representatives Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09), and Judy Chu (CA-27) led their 40+ of their colleagues in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to provide a public comment to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on the Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility.
DHS recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to replace the Trump-era 2019 Public Charge Rule—which expanded the list of public benefits that immigrants were prohibited from using—with a rule that would not penalize non-citizens for accessing the public benefits that are available to them.
“First, we want to express our support for Department’s effort to repair the damage caused by the harmful Trump Administration’s public charge rule, which disproportionately harmed communities of color,” the members wrote. “We strongly agree that ‘the 2019 public charge rule was not consistent with our nation’s values’ […] And while we applaud the Biden Administration’s prompt efforts to end this Trump-era policy, our communities are still experiencing the consequences of the Trump Administration’s actions.” |
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