Michelle Malkin Celebrates 5-4 SCOTUS Decision Allowing Trump Admin Immigration Policy

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme court sided with the Trump Administration to implement harsher immigration policy. According to an article published by Reuters, “[This allows the] administration to implement a rule denying legal permanent residency to certain immigrants deemed likely to require government assistance in the future … The rule has been criticized by immigrant rights advocates as a ‘wealth test’ that would disproportionately keep out non-white immigrants.”

Conservative activist Michelle Malkin called this “good news,” and a “big deal” in a series of tweets about the decision. She quoted Justice Gorsuch in a tweet that says, “It would be delusional to think that one stay today suffices to remedy the problem…real problem here is increasingly common practice of trial courts ordering relief that transcends the cases before them.” View an additional tweet below: 

Malkin also expressed her opinion on the use of the poem written on the Statue of Liberty by tweeting it was not a symbol of open borders. View that tweet below:

According to Reuters, the issue of which immigrants will be granted legal permanent residency, known as a “green card” will be affected by this new policy, “Under Trump’s policy, immigration officers would consider factors such as age, educational level and English proficiency to decide whether an immigrant would be likely to become a ‘public charge’ who would receive government benefits such as the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor.”

Also, “The administration has said the new rule is necessary to better ensure that immigrants will be self-sufficient. Critics have said the rule would disproportionately bar low-income people from developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia from permanent residency. The new rule expands the “public charge” bar to anyone deemed likely to receive a much wider range of public benefits for more than an aggregate of 12 months over any 36-month period including healthcare, housing and food assistance,” wrote Andrew Chung in the Reuters article. 

Several Democratic lawmakers did not respond well to this decision, such as Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) who claims this “cruel” rule will threaten the lives of many hardworking families. View her tweet below: 

The Supreme Court justices in the majority are Chief Justice Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. Those in the minority are Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. 

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