Thread: Supreme Court Rejects Republican Bid to Revive Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule

Just for the record, as far back as our colonial period, public charge laws were enacted to prohibit the immigration of individuals who might become a public charge. One such law forbid ”… the admission of indigent migrants. This law was followed in the 18th century by other laws prohibiting the landing of “Sick, Lame, or Otherwise Infirm Persons,” and calling for bonds that were forfeited if immigrants of questionable means became public charges.” See: Public Charge Provisions of Immigration Law: A Brief Historical Background


Additionally, see: An act in amendment to the various acts relative to immigration and the importation of aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor


And in more recent times, during the early 1900s when there were great numbers immigrating to the United States and had to be cleared for entry at Elis Island, many were not granted entry into the United States for a number of reasons. One reason to be rejected was the likelihood of becoming a “public charge”, additionally, "Unescorted women and children were detained until their safety was assured through the arrival of a telegram, letter, or a pre-paid ticket from a waiting relative. Immigration officials refused to send single women into the streets alone, nor could they leave with a man not related to them. LINK


The law also required a medical inspection of all immigrants, and if an inspection officer detected an applicant with a disease, especially contagious diseases and even mental illness, they were rejected.


So, the remaining question is: why is our federal government, including our Supreme Court, ignoring common sense public charge rules, and allowing the United states to be filled with the poverty stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled and criminal populations of Central America? And how does this promote the general welfare of the United States and her citizens, and especially so when American Citizens pay federal taxes so our federal government will “repel invasions” and promote the general welfare of the United States and her citizens?

Why are our constitutionally guaranteed protections being ignored?

JWK



"If the Constitution was ratified under the belief, sedulously propagated on all sides that such protection was afforded, would it not now be a fraud upon the whole people to give a different construction to its powers?"___ Justice Story