About the bill
President Trump is trying to crack down on legal immigrants who use too much in taxpayer-funded benefits programs. But is any use at all “too much”?
Context
In September, a new policy would make it easier for the feds to deny issuing or extending green cards to legal immigrants if they’ve used certain government assistance programs such as food stamps or welfare benefits.
The rule would also allow the government to preemptively deny such green cards even for those who have never used such assistance programs, if they believe someone is “likely to receive” such assistance in the future.
Such a rule has existed in a much more limited form since since at least 1999 during the Clinton Administration, but this overhaul would dramatically expand its scope.
The change, announced …
Sponsor and status
115th Congress (2017–2019)
This bill was introduced on October 9, 2018, in a previous session of Congress, but it did not receive a vote.
Although this bill was not enacted, its provisions could have become law by being included in another bill. It is common for legislative text to be introduced concurrently in multiple bills (called companion bills), re-introduced in subsequent sessions of Congress in new bills, or added to larger bills (sometimes called omnibus bills).
57 Cosponsors (57 Democrats)
Position statements
What legislators are saying
“Pingree Moves to Block Implementation of Administrations Latest Anti-Legal-Immigrant Proposal”
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Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME1]
(Co-sponsor)
on Oct 10, 2018
History
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Oct 9, 2018
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Introduced
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Jun 12, 2019
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Reintroduced Bill —
Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, H.R. 3222 (116th). |
H.R. 7052 (115th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
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Bills numbers restart every two years. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. 7052. This is the one from the 115th Congress.
This bill was introduced in the 115th Congress, which met from Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 3, 2019. Legislation not passed by the end of a Congress is cleared from the books.
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