When we discuss and understand the Public Charge Rule, let there be no question that it will harm some of the very most vulnerable in our society—including U.S. citizen children, survivors of domestic violence and recently arrived refugees and asylum-seekers who need a small measure of social support as they bravely make their way in a new country.
Author: Nina Rabin
Nina Rabin is Director of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic at UCLA School of Law, which serves students and their families on the site of a complex of public schools in Koreatown in Los Angeles. She previously directed the Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program at the University of Arizona, where she founded and directed a Workers’ Rights Clinic and co-directed an Immigration Law Clinic. She has also undertaken policy research and advocacy projects that document and analyze the impact of immigration enforcement on women and families, working conditions of immigrant women workers, immigrants’ parental rights and the treatment of women fleeing gender-based violence in immigration detention.
Women on the Run
Central American women fleeing domestic violence are hardly a national security threat, yet these terrified women have borne the brunt of some of the harshest border policies enacted—all in the name of “keeping America safe.”