Public Charge Litigation Ups and Downs

Dear Allies,

As we shared last week, on Wednesday, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Trump Administration’s efforts to lift the New York District Court’s injunction blocking the DHS public charge regulation from being implemented. Despite appeals court rulings in December that lifted injunctions in two other cases, the Trump administration’s racially motivated wealth test for immigrants remains blocked nationwide. For the individuals and families impacted by this rule, every single day that this rule continues to be blocked counts as a major victory.

However, the legal battle is far from over. While the decision last week was welcome news, the government’s appeals of the injunctions in multiple cases are moving forward on expedited schedules. We expect decisions in the next couple of months, if not sooner. And we recently learned that this week, in characteristic fashion, the administration will try to leapfrog over the lower court appeals process by directly asking the Supreme Court to stay (or temporarily lift) the nationwide injunction from New York. As always, we will keep you up to date as we learn more.

UPCOMING CALLS AND WEBINARS

The PIF Campaign will be offering several webinars and calls this month. See below for more information and registration links.

BEST PRACTICES WEBINAR
January 17 at 2pm ET, 11am PT

Public charge is an issue that cuts across many sectors and has caused many organizations to stretch outside their normal areas of expertise. Join us to hear from immigrant-serving organizations from across the country share their experiences and expertise in building an effective public charge campaign in their own communities. The best practices highlighted in this webinar are the start of many years of work ahead to support threatened immigrant communities, and they will undoubtedly be adapted, evolved, and reinvented in the years to come.

STATE OF PLAY CALL
January 24 at 1pm ET, 10am PT

Join us on January 27th for the Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign's first in a series of State-of-Play calls, where policy and legal experts from NILC and CLASP will provide an overview of all the public charge-related policies currently at play and share key litigation updates.

PUBLIC CHARGE 101 WEBINAR
January 30 at 3pm ET, 12pm PT

Do you or your colleagues need a refresher or a first time overview of how the public charge test works today in the U.S. and abroad, and how it may change in the future? If so, please join us for our first Public Charge 101 webinar of 2020. Experts from NILC and CLASP will describe the different public charge policies currently in place, discuss how and when they may change, and explain what you need to know if you work with immigrant families. We will also cover how you can take action and get more involved with the work of the Protecting Immigrant Families Campaign.

Thank you for your continued partnership!

Madison Allen, Center for Law and Social Policy, &
Jenny Rejeske, National Immigration Law Center

Visit us at https://protectingimmigrantfamilies.org/

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