public charge

The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing the Trump Administration to make it harder for low-income immigrants to get green cards, at least for now.

The judge called the limited definition of a public charge "repugnant to the American Dream of prosperity and opportunity."

New York became the latest state to sue the Trump Administration over its "public charge" rule, which limits legal immigrants from obtaining permanent residency if they're considered likely to need public benefits.

'People are voluntarily giving up thousands of dollars worth of food when they're desperately poor because [they think] the alternative is having a parent deported.'

Changing the regulation has been an obsession of the president's senior advisor Stephen Miller, widely seen as the most hardline anti-immigrant voice in the Trump White House.