Arizona’s Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva are some of 126 Democratic lawmakers are asking the Trump administration not to move forward with a rule change that would block more immigrants from entering the U.S.
The proposed rule, posted in November, would undo a Biden-era policy and reinterpret public charge rules, or those that dictate whether someone is eligible to change their immigration status or enter the U.S.
The new policy would take into consideration a person’s past use of public benefits, and possible future use, and experts say it's also not clear whether a family member's use of benefits would play a role.
In a letter to administration officials, the lawmakers say the proposal will cause mass uncertainty among immigrants, and could harm Americans who are part of mixed immigration status families.
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Thousands of refugees in the U.S. lost health coverage on Oct. 1 as new Medicaid eligibility rules took effect. In Arizona, unlike in most states, even children and pregnant women are being dropped. -
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests. -
New research shows the ancient site is much older than previously thought. In fact, it’s now confirmed to be the oldest known scientifically dated geoglyph in the Americas, 2,000 years older than the first Pyramids built in Egypt. -
Protesters have been camped out in a plot of private ranch land in Lochiel for over two months now, trying to block wall construction as it neared a towering cottonwood tree that was the last of a grove slated for destruction to make way for two, parallel steel bollard walls. -
Ahmed Soliman has no ties to Equatorial Guinea. The 30-year-old man was born in Egypt and brought to the United States. when he was just 4 years old. He grew up in Phoenix. Now he’s believed to be in a hospital in the African nation.
