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By Paul Waldman
Opinion writer
August 12 at 1:32 PM
For many years, whenever someone accused Republicans of being anti-immigrant, they would insist that they are actually pro-immigrant and that they opposed only illegal immigration. As long as people come legally, they would say, we welcome them.
So how many Republicans have raised their voices in opposition to the Trump administrations efforts not only to slash legal immigration but also to push out legal immigrants who are already here?
The administration has all but shut Americas doors to refugees fleeing war, disaster and oppression. Theyve tried to make it impossible to seek asylum if youre coming from the south. Theyve allowed officials to reject green card applications for trivial paperwork reasons such as a missing blank page, without allowing applicants to fix the errors. Theyve proposed raising immigration filing fees, just to make things more difficult.
And now, theyre following through on a proposal they first suggested not long after President Trump took office and officially unveiled last year, to use a 19th-century public charge principle to deny green cards and citizenship to legal immigrants who have ever used a public benefit such as Medicaid, the Childrens Health Insurance Program or food stamps. The policy goes even further ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/12/trump-administration-ramps-up-its-war-legal-immigration/
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