Report Finds NY Immigrants Fear Accessing Public Benefits and Services
“In a new report, the Center for Migration Studies of New York finds that fear and other barriers are preventing immigrants from accessing public benefits and services they are eligible for. The study, which was conducted in 2020 and 2021, called the Trump administration’s 2019 public charge rule ‘a silent monster’ hindering immigrants from taking advantage of benefits, as they’re concerned using the benefits will jeopardize their immigration status and open them up to family separation, detention, and deportation. Immigrant groups who the rule did not affect were scared of it regardless and many other immigrants were misinformed about the benefits that counted as a public charge.”