Trump wants to stop migrants coming to US for freebies

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The Trump administration is proposing to close the door left wide open by former President Joe Biden to migrants who can’t take care of themselves without going on U.S. taxpayer-funded government assistance programs.

In a rule change meant to echo 140 years of federal law before the Biden administration’s open border policies, the Trump administration would more strictly require that migrants seeking green cards show that they can live here without soaking up programs set aside for America’s poor.

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