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It can’t be overstated how much the #PublicChargeRule affects crime survivors. This decision strips immigrant survivors of their public safety net. No administration can do this and turn around tomorrow and say they have survivor's best interest in mind.
nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/…
nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/…
Poverty is a systemic issue. Poverty systemically drives violence. As this rule further concentrates poverty, it will also further concentrate violence.
The #PublicChargeRule affects all of our work. If we believe that this decision has no bearing on our work in criminal justice, then we have already lost.
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So, I don't typically like to discuss my personal life on here, but, in the context of the #PublicChargeRule and the broader debate over the difficulty of securing a permanent status, here goes:
So, I don't typically like to discuss my personal life on here, but, in the context of the #PublicChargeRule and the broader debate over the difficulty of securing a permanent status, here goes:
I recently filed this packet with USCIS. It's one of the more straightforward immigration processes you can undertake (adjustment of status as immediate relative of US citizen) and, at ~140 pages, it is on the shorter side of immigration applications writ large 
It includes the petition to register an alien relative, petition to adjust status, request for work authorization, and petition for advance parole, which would allow me to leave the country while the process is ongoing. All of these require their own evidence
Under new immigration rules:
If you are a brilliant brown scientist immigrant on a visa and you get shot by a white supremacist at a Walmart, and you are forced to be on disability for 2 years because the bullet took out your spleen: your green card application could be rejected
If you are a brilliant brown scientist immigrant on a visa and you get shot by a white supremacist at a Walmart, and you are forced to be on disability for 2 years because the bullet took out your spleen: your green card application could be rejected
2/If you are a brown immigrant VETERAN:
honorably discharged, suffering from PTSD, addicted to pain pills.
and
after losing your house, your partner and your mind, you seek local/state help to get back on your feet:
This administration may deny you your citizenship application
honorably discharged, suffering from PTSD, addicted to pain pills.
and
after losing your house, your partner and your mind, you seek local/state help to get back on your feet:
This administration may deny you your citizenship application
3/ However
If you are white, with zero specialized skills, and your face has that constant " I am looking directly into the sun" look, you may get an Einstein visa, bring your sister and your useless parents using chain migration and most likely Marry and orange man with VD
If you are white, with zero specialized skills, and your face has that constant " I am looking directly into the sun" look, you may get an Einstein visa, bring your sister and your useless parents using chain migration and most likely Marry and orange man with VD
The #TantonNetwork is in full swing. White nationalism as immigration policy.
John Tanton was a white nationalist, and grandfather of the modern anti-immigrant movement. He founded several organizations who have filled key strategic positions within the current administration.
Learn to recognize his thought: @USCISCuccinelli speaks it quite fluently.
Learn to recognize his thought: @USCISCuccinelli speaks it quite fluently.
Tanton's legacy is camouflaging white nationalism. He thought being called "racist" was an ad hominem attack. Read what he wrote in 1994:
Statue of Liberty. A thread.
Legal immigrants who are applying for permanent residency do not qualify for or use public assistance programs such as TANF, SNAP or Section 8 Housing.
This is a ploy to rile up right-wing voters and mislead them to believe they do. Let me explain.
Legal immigrants who are applying for permanent residency do not qualify for or use public assistance programs such as TANF, SNAP or Section 8 Housing.
This is a ploy to rile up right-wing voters and mislead them to believe they do. Let me explain.
The proposed #PublicChargeRule that is about go into effect can be found here:
federalregister.gov/documents/2018…
It applies to people seeking adjustment of status from a visa status such as a work visa (for example like H1B). To adjust status you have to have a sponsor is most cases.
federalregister.gov/documents/2018…
It applies to people seeking adjustment of status from a visa status such as a work visa (for example like H1B). To adjust status you have to have a sponsor is most cases.
The most common forms of status from which you would apply for permanent residency are as follows:
A.Sponsorship by a family member such as a Permanent Resident or US Citizen spouse or adult US Citizen Child, or an adult US Citizen sibling.
A.Sponsorship by a family member such as a Permanent Resident or US Citizen spouse or adult US Citizen Child, or an adult US Citizen sibling.
Last night on "All Things Considered," a guy from FAIR, an anti-migrant hate group founded by a white supremacist, said that the people subject to the #PublicChargeRule "weren't objectively assessed on their self-reliance but rather their bloodline."
npr.org/2019/08/12/750…
npr.org/2019/08/12/750…
His language reminded me of early 20th-century eugenicists.
He went on: "So a lot of these people coming in without a - an economic reason, an employment opportunity, they're a recipe for financial disaster. They're going to cost us absolute billions of dollars."
He went on: "So a lot of these people coming in without a - an economic reason, an employment opportunity, they're a recipe for financial disaster. They're going to cost us absolute billions of dollars."
According to FAIR and the Trump administration, immigrants who come here because of family connections are dead weight, a burden. It's therefore correct to deprive them of resources available to everyone else.
In this story, NPR did not dispute this characterization.
In this story, NPR did not dispute this characterization.
