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Everyone knows how President Trump feels about illegal immigration, but he's not crazy about the legal kind either.

On Saturday, the Trump administration proposed new ways to limit who gets a green card in the United States.

The limits are on immigrants who might become what's called a public charge.

Someone who might end up dependent on the government for assistance, stuff like food stamps or Medicaid.

Public charge is a term you'll find in US immigration law, but the thing is it's never really been defined by Congress.

And that's where the Trump administration comes in.

So the Trump administration is now proposing a statutory definition of public charge that just happens to raise the bars,

raise the standards substantially for who can get into the US and makes it much more likely that immigrants with lower incomes or he

use public benefits will be deemed public charges and have their green cards denied.

Darryl Lynn reports on immigration at Vox and she's been sifting through all this public charge business for a few days now.

It's an extremely complicated calculation.

The regulation was about 447 pages when it came out on Saturday night.

What it ultimately comes down to a lot of discretion for the US citizen treatment immigration services officers who are

actually looking through an immigrant's application.

They're supposed to take age into effect health status, family status, education and skill level and they're supposed to look at kind of the household assets and resources,

part of which is whether an immigrant has used public benefits while in the US or whether they're likely to use them in the future.

Do we have any idea what might get you rejected and what might not like where where the bar is what.

Yeah, the clearest thing in terms of rejection is that if you have used public benefits substantially over the years before you apply,

that is a strongly weighted negative factor.

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