Democratic New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says a plan by the Trump administration to restrict welfare for immigrants is “cruel and unlawful.”
President Donald Trump is seeking to change the public charge rule to allow the administration to deny visa and green card applications to immigrants receiving welfare benefits.
‘We’re shaking in our boots over this supposedly terrible outcome.’
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Mamdani and New York Attorney General Letitia James are suing to block the plan.
“The new public charge rule seeks to push immigrant families away from the programs that have kept people fed and healthy for decades,” read a statement from the mayor Monday.
“New Yorkers will be afraid to see a doctor or ask for help they are legally entitled to,” he added. “That fear will not stop at
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