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U.S. judge blocks Trump's health insurance rule for immigrants

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A inflicted on the healthcare
federal judge in Portland, system from subsidizing
Oregon, on Saturday put uncompensated care for
on hold a Trump adminis- those seeking admission.
tration rule requiring immi- Under the government's
grants prove they will have visa rule, the required in-
health insurance or can surance can be bought
pay for medical care be- individually or provided by
fore they can get visas. an employer and it can
U.S. District Judge Michael be short-term coverage or
Simon granted a tempo- catastrophic.
rary restraining order that According to the Migration
prevents the rule from go- Policy Institute, a nonparti-
ing into effect Sunday. It's san immigration think tank,
not clear when he will rule 57% of U.S. immigrants had
on the merits of the case. private health insurance in
Seven U.S. citizens and 2017, compared with 69%
a nonprofit organization of U.S.-born, and 30% had
filed the federal lawsuit public health insurance
Wednesday contending coverage, compared with
the rule would block nearly 36% of native-born.
two-thirds of all prospective The uninsured rate for immi-
legal immigrants. grants dropped from 32%
The lawsuit also said the In this June 28, 2019 file photo, local residents with visas walk across the Puerta Mexico international to 20% from 2013 to 2017,
rule would greatly reduce bridge to enter the U.S., in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico. since the implementation
or eliminate the number of Associated Press of the Affordable Care Act,
immigrants who enter the The proclamation signed resources to pay for any President's policy judg- according to Migration Pol-
United States with family by President Donald Trump medical costs. ment on a matter where icy.
sponsored visas. in early October applies to The rule is the Trump ad- Congress expressly gave There are about 1.1 million
"We're very grateful that people seeking immigrant ministration's latest effort the President authority," people who obtain green
the court recognized the visas from abroad — not to limit immigrant access said the statement from cards each year.
need to block the health those in the U.S. already. It to public programs while Press Secretary Stephanie "Countless thousands
care ban immediately," does not affect lawful per- trying to move the country Grisham. across the country can
says Justice Action Center manent residents. It does away from a family based "It is wrong and unfair for a breathe a sigh of relief to-
senior litigator Esther Sung, not apply to asylum-seek- immigration system to a single district court judge day because the court
who argued at Saturday's ers, refugees or children. merit-based system. to thwart the policies that recognized the urgent
hearing on behalf of the The proclamation says im- The White House said in a the President determined and irreparable harm that
plaintiffs. "The ban would migrants will be barred statement Sunday that it would best protect the would have been inflicted"
separate families and cut from entering the country strongly disagrees with the United States healthcare without the hold, said Jesse
two-thirds of green-card- unless they are to be cov- decision. system — and for the Unit- Bless, director of federal liti-
based immigration starting ered by health insurance "Once again, a nationwide ed States taxpayers to suf- gation at the American Im-
tonight, were the ban not within 30 days of entering injunction is permitting a fer the grave consequenc- migration Lawyers Associa-
stopped." or have enough financial single judge to thwart the es of the immense strain tion. q

White nationalists seen filming at lynching victim memorial

By KIM CHANDLER large cross, a symbol asso- dated security system that
Associated Press ciated with the League of accompanies a new bul-
People carrying a white na- the South. let-proof memorial to Till
tionalist flag were caught The Southern Poverty Law that was dedicated Oct.
on security cameras trying Center has described the 19. The bulletproof sign and
to film in front of a new me- League of the South as security measures come
morial to lynching victim a neo-Confederate hate after the first three markers
Emmett Till. group. "They basically were vandalized.
Patrick Weems, executive showed a group of people The first historical marker
director of the Emmett Till coming out and filming was placed in 2008. Some-
Memorial Commission, told what looked to be some one tossed it in the river.
The Associated Press that kind of propaganda vid- The second and third signs
the incident was captured eo at the historic marker," were shot at and left rid-
Saturday by new security Weems said. dled with bullet holes.
cameras at the memorial Till was 14 when he was kid- The new 500-pound (225-ki-
site in Mississippi. Security napped, beaten and killed logram) steel sign has a
video from the commission in 1955 after he allegedly glass bulletproof front,
shows the people, includ- whistled at a white woman. Weems said.
ing a person carrying the This undated file photo shows Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black An all-white jury in Missis- The commission is trying
flag of a neo-Confederate Chicago boy, whose body was found in the Tallahatchie River sippi acquitted two white to raise money for a per-
group flag, filming at the near the Delta community of Money, Miss., Aug. 31, 1955. men of murder charges. manent memorial site and
site. They are seeing run- Associated Press The memorial is at the site received some donations
ning away after a security the memorial "that repre- all the white people?" he where Till's body was pulled after the video was discov-
alarm sounds. sents the civil rights move- continued before the clip from the Tallahatchie River. ered. "We hope this hate
In the video, a man can be ment for blacks." "What we ends. The group was car- The camera system and speech leads to positive
heard saying they are at want to know is, where are rying a white flag with a alarms are part of an up- action," Weems said.q