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The government of the US president, Donald Trump, announced Monday that he will launch a law aimed at reducing the number of legal immigrants who are allowed to enter and reside in the country, by facilitating the rejection of applications for residence permits , known as "green cards", or of some visas, according to Efe.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) has released a version of the rule today, which is designed to deny visas and permanent residence to hundreds or thousands of people because they are too poor, according to information published by Reuters.

The regulations, which will be officially disclosed in the Federal Register on Wednesday, will take effect sixty days after its publication. The United States will be able to determine if the foreigner has become a "public charge" for the Administration, that is, if it "depends mainly" on the assistance of public funds to subsist, and then cancel their immigration status.

In this way, a person with a permanent resident card or some type of visa obtained through legal means could be affected by their situation in the US, if they cannot maintain their personal economy without government assistance.

"The principle that drives it (the law) is an old American value, which is self-sufficiency," said Ken Cuccinelli, interim American director of Citizenship and Immigration, in an interview in Fox News on Monday.

"It will also have the long-term benefit of protecting taxpayers, ensuring that people who are emigrating to this country do not become public charges, that they can fend for themselves, as immigrants have done in past years," he said. indicated.

Immigrant advocacy groups warn that this rule would discriminate against people from poorer countries, keep families apart and encourage legal residents to give up public assistance they probably need to survive, according to local media.

These organizations ensure that the legislation would penalize immigrants with a work visa who need some public assistance on a temporary basis.

Elderly immigrants, many of whom obtain prescription drugs at low cost through subsidized programs, may also be forced to leave such aid or risk being considered a "public charge," which would not allow them to maintain the status of legal resident

With this new rule, more than half of the families requesting the "green card" would be denied, according to research by the American Migration Policy Institute. In 2016, some 800,000 residence cards were granted.

The new rule derives from the Immigration Act of 1882, which allows the US Government to refuse a visa to anyone who can become a "public charge." In recent years, immigration officials defined visa applicants with this formula if they observed that they were likely to depend primarily on government assistance.

Applicants will now have to show higher levels of income to obtain a visa and the rule greatly expands the list of government benefits that migrants would cease to obtain when they obtained U.S. citizenship.

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