MPI researchers document the decline in utilization of public-benefit programs, including TANF, SNAP (food stamps), and Medicaid by non-citizens and their U.S.-born children during the Trump administration.
This toolkit, developed in partnership with the Protecting Immigrant Families (PIF) state policy subcommittee, is geared toward immigration attorneys seeking to counsel clients who may be concerned about the impact their participation in affordable housing programs will have on their applications for permanent residency.
This resource reviews all updates to public charge rule in recent months.
This resource contains core messages you can share with community members to help combat the chilling effect this rule may have.
This FAQ on the DHS 2019 public charge rule provides responses to the most commonly asked questions related to this rule change.
The Trump administration is considering publishing a U.S. Department of Justice draft regulation interpreting the provision of deporting legal permanent residents who’ve used public benefits. This practice advisory provides an overview of current law.
This document is a running summary of demographic and economic research estimating the impact of the Trump administration’s proposed public charge rule. The document includes information on each research product’s key findings and data sources and suggests best uses for each product while describing the limitations of each research product.
This paper addresses ways in which immigrant communities have been impacted by the Trump administration’s proposed public charge rule. Different accounts are detailed in which families have made decisions to avoid the use of health care; even for children who are U.S. citizens. Anthropologists are encouraged to document these “chilling effects” and to stay alert to how public charge anxiety influences people’s engagement with local services.
This analysis provides new estimates of the potential impacts from the proposed Trump administration changes to the public charge rule. Using 2014 Survey of Income and Program Participation data, it examines the (1) share of noncitizens who originally entered the U.S. without LPR status who have characteristics that DHS could potentially weigh negatively in a public charge determination and (2) number of individuals who would disenroll from Medicaid under different scenarios.
The proposed “public charge” rule from the Trump administration would result in declines of immigrant families’ access to the basics we all need to survive. The proposal would make—and has already made—immigrant families afraid to seek programs that help them stay strong and productive and raise children who thrive.
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