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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The Department of Homeland Security estimates that the proposed change, now out for pu

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