Legal challenge to State Department public charge rules

A coalition of immigrants’ rights organization including the National Immigration Law Center, Make the Road New York, African Services Committee and Catholic Charities, have filed a legal challenge to the State Department’s public charge rules that make it harder to obtain a green card if you receive food stamps or government subsidized health care. The lawsuit seeks to block the State Department from moving forward with its public charge rules, as distinct from the Department of Homeland Security/USCIS’s public charge rules. It  specifically singles out the Trump Administration’s “Presidential Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System” that requires green-card applicants to have “approved” medical coverage or sufficient resources to pay for their medical costs out of pocket.