The Trump administration implemented its “public charge” rule last week. The rule will generally refuse legal status to unskilled immigrants whom the government predicts will make less than 250% of the poverty line: $31,900 annually for an individual. Democrats decried this move as immoral, and it is indeed deeply flawed, yet their party’s economic plans would create similar barriers to immigrants striving to realize the American dream.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is the leading example. The socialist senator promises to rescind the public charge rule created by Trump. He says it is appalling that our immigration system would “discriminate on the basis of income.” The land of the free, he quite rightly believes, should “welcome all.”
