SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 16 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:
OAKLAND- California Attorney General Rob Bonta today slammed the Trump Administration's decision to eliminate regulations governing who is considered likely to become a "publiccharge," dramatically expanding the ability of immigration officials to use participation inpublicbenefits programs as grounds to deny lawful permanent residency. Historically, thepublicchargeground of inadmissibility was a narrow provision that excluded only those immigrants who were expected to become primarily dependent on federalprogramsfortheir subsistence - not those who lawfullyaccesspublicbenefits to weather a short-term period of instability. Attorney General B...