Opinion: New public charge rule amounts to child abuse
If physicians can report parents who withhold food or medicine or housing from their children for committing child abuse, we should be able to charge the Trump administration with the…
If one of our patients withheld food or medication from her child, we would report her for child abuse. But come Oct. 15, when the Trump administration’s new public charge immigration rule goes into effect, we’ll have to rethink that strategy.
The public charge rule refers to a term used in immigration law to identify an individual who is primarily dependent on the government for support. The Trump administration has broadened the definition of what can be taken into account when denying green cards to include immigrants who use one or more of
