Amendments to the immigration law in the United States would affect millions of people

The administration of President Donald Trump is considering deportation countdown legal residents with a permanence in the United States that uses public benefits. This is to strengthen immigration measures for low-income people.

According to British media Daily Mail, the United States Department of Justice will significantly expand the categories in which people who they could be deported using the help provided by the state.

The paper would use a broader definition when including migrants who have used the benefits, who declare themselves to be "public officials", that is to say:they depend mainly on the state of subsistence.

The government is badyzing the possibility that such cases may be deported, but take practice would be a little complicated because he represents withdraw cash help, food vouchers, housing badistance, among others.

Be a measure that is at an early stage It is hard to guess that she will become a government representative. However, this creates the risk of attracting unwanted lawsuits against Donald Trump's government.

If implemented, it would generate a big impact on the recent permanent who has in his possession the long-awaited "green card" that gives them the right to use public benefits shortly after arriving in the country.

The well-known "American dream" could be more and more complicated by the president's advisers in desperate socks seeks to fulfill his campaign promises reduce illegal immigration to the United States.

US law allows deportation only if the immigrant has become a "public office" within five years of admission.

Following a 1948 decision, the expulsion of immigrants for the purpose of using benefits was limited to cases in which the government demanded that the public service be paid when the recipient did not paid.

The benefits in question include Income, Supplementary Security (SSI) that is given to people with disabilities and the elderly; the supplementary nutritional badistance program (SNAP), known under the name of food coupons; Section 8 housing vouchers; many advantages of Medicaid; and Temporary Assistance to needy families (TANF, for its acronym in English), a cash badistance program.

Subject matter experts and migrants' advocates badured that there was no clear impact, but if that should be done. a devastation to long-standing practice.

"We are here on a new territory because this has never been provensaid Charles Wheeler, a lawyer with the legal network of non-profit Catholic immigrants. " I fear that he will only address permanent resident aliens who would otherwise have declared themselves free to benefit from SSI and other public benefit programs. "

The proposal of the Ministry of Justicee based on a similar plan from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, for its acronym in English) which greatly expands what it means to be a public office.