COMING UP AT 11 am:
Tune in for @GeorgetownICAP & CASA de Maryland’s press conference announcing a major new lawsuit against the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant policies.
Live-streaming coming here: https://www.facebook.com/CASAforAll/
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Just announced: Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection (
@georgetownICAP) and immigration non-profit CASA (@CASAforall) will seek a court order to block a new “Public Charge” rule. Learn more:http://bit.ly/2kofdPM1 reply 5 retweets 5 likes -
"Our lawsuit challenges a new rule by the Dept. of Homeland Security which dramatically expands the category of immigrants who can be denied green cards,"
@GeorgetownICAP's Amy Marshak.1 reply 3 retweets 7 likes -
"The new rule upends a century of interpretation that had limited the term “public” charge” to cover only those noncitizens who were likely to become permanently and primarily dependent on the government for their basic needs," Amy Marshak, Senior Counsel
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"Our case challenges the rule as being unconstitutionally vague under the due-process component of the Fifth Amendment," says
@GeorgetownICAP Amy Marshak, pointing to concerns that the rule deprives immigrants of fair notice of what could render them a "public charge"@CASAforall2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes -
Today
@GeorgetownICAP also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the public-charge rule from going into effect as planned on Oct. 15, 2019. Amy Marshak: " Our motion explains how CASA (@CASAforall) and its members will be hurt if the rule is not stopped."2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes -
Due to fear & confusion about how the public-charge rule will affect them, "some of
@CASAforall's members have stopped accepting public benefits for themselves and their family members,"@GeorgetownICAP's Amy Marshak explains.3 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
.@GeorgetownICAP represents plaintiffs who hope to one day obtain their green cards, yet live every day uncertain about how to make decisions that "won’t result in them facing an arbitrary and irrational public-charge determination and end their American dream." - Amy Marshakpic.twitter.com/ptDSQilWFQ
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@GeorgetownICAP's Amy Marshak with@CASAforall's Michelle LaRue, George Escobar and Maryland State Delegate@JPenaMelnyk. Read more about the lawsuit: http://bit.ly/2kofdPM pic.twitter.com/mQGp4slb4w
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