March 06, 2023
A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed a pair of lawsuits alleging a Trump-era visa policy punished low-income immigrants for potentially needing public services after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the matter in January.
July 29, 2020
A New York federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from implementing its controversial wealth test for immigrants during the national health emergency stemming from the coronavirus pandemic.
May 18, 2020
A Manhattan federal judge pushed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for answers Monday on its rule applying a wealth test to immigrants, suggesting that COVID-19 guidance released by the agency could support a renewed bid to freeze the rule.
April 29, 2020
A group of states and nonprofits urged a Manhattan federal judge to stop the Trump administration from implementing its controversial wealth test for immigrants during the coronavirus pandemic, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in.
March 16, 2020
A New York federal judge on Monday agreed to push back oral arguments in a dispute over the federal government's "public charge" rule penalizing green card applicants who use public benefits, granting a request from the government that cited COVID-19.
March 11, 2020
The states challenging the federal government's "public charge" rule penalizing green card applicants who use public benefits urged the government Wednesday to stop enforcing the policy in light of the spread of COVID-19.
October 29, 2019
A U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services official said the longer courts block a policy penalizing immigrants for using public assistance programs, the more the agency risks spending on training personnel to enforce the policy.
October 11, 2019
Three federal judges in New York, California and Washington state blocked the Trump administration Friday from enforcing a rule that would penalize immigrants for using public assistance programs, with one judge calling the measure "repugnant."
September 30, 2019
The Trump administration asked a New York federal judge to let it enforce a new policy that would penalize immigrants for using certain public benefits, claiming the nonprofits and states behind a pair of lawsuits challenging the policy won't actually be affected by it.
September 10, 2019
A group of states and New York City urged a federal court to block the Trump administration's new rule penalizing immigrants who rely on public benefits, slamming the policy as an effort by the White House to target working class immigrants of color.