Legal Immigration Rule, Ebola Cure? & Tumblr Sold - Tuesday, August 13th, 2019
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Tuesday, August 13th, 2019!
What to know today about new rules impacting legal immigrants, and we're talking about a potential cure for Ebola.
Plus: what's next for Tumblr, Twitter and Apple TV+...
Those stories and more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Tuesday, August 13th. |
| 0:03.0 | What to know today about new rules impacting legal immigrants? |
| 0:06.4 | And we're talking about a potential cure for Ebola. |
| 0:09.2 | Plus what's next for Tumblr, Twitter, and Apple TV. |
| 0:17.3 | Welcome, welcome to the newsworthy. All the days news in less than 10 minutes. |
| 0:19.6 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Erica Mandy. thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:25.0 | You ready, let's do this. |
| 0:27.0 | A new rule from the Trump administration affects immigrants who are in the country legally. |
| 0:35.0 | The Trump administration is about to make it harder for some legal immigrants to become permanent U.S. residents, |
| 0:40.0 | aka get a green card. |
| 0:42.0 | The Washington Post reports it mostly makes it harder for |
| 0:44.9 | poor immigrants to get a green card those who use public programs think food |
| 0:49.5 | stamps Medicaid and housing assistance. Keep in mind in the past immigrants have had to prove they can support themselves to some |
| 0:55.8 | degree, but now there's a longer list of public programs that can disqualify them in their |
| 1:00.6 | path to citizenship. |
| 1:02.4 | The Trump administration says it will |
| 1:03.8 | ensure people can support themselves before they become citizens that it |
| 1:07.4 | highlights personal responsibility. Essentially people need to prove they |
| 1:11.0 | won't be a burden to taxpayers or a so-called public charge. |
| 1:15.1 | But critics say it's just a roundabout way to get rid of immigrants. |
| 1:18.0 | They say the rule change will mean hundreds of thousands of people will stop using the public |
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