The 13 states that banded together to try to defend the so-called public charge rule are weighing their options about how to revive the policy after the Supreme Court dismissed their appeal, an aide to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said. The Trump-era rule screened out potentially government-dependent immigrants but the Biden administration refused to defend it before the often-reversed U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.
In addition to Brnovich, a Republican, the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia were also petitioners in the Supreme Court case. According to Brnovich, the rule saved the states, collectively, more than $1 billion per year—a figure the Biden administration disputes—and killing the rule would reimpose these costs on the states….