Trump rule blocked for the third time that makes it harder for immigrants to obtain legal status

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(CNN) - A federal judge in California is the third judge to block the "public charge" rule of the Trump administration. The decision prevents the regulation from taking effect in selected locations, contrary to previous rulings by federal judges in Washington and New York, which apply throughout the country.
Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton included the iconic poem by Emma Lazarus on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in her executive summary.

The acting director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, Ken Cuccinelli, modified the famous poem - whose words, " Give me your surrender, your poor, your overcrowded masses yearning to breathe freely " have long been associated with Immigration to the United States and the history of the nation as a paradise — as part of its defense of regulation in August.
"But whether one prefers to see the borders of the United States open and welcoming, or closed because the nation is full, it is the laws, not poetry, that govern who can enter," Hamilton wrote.

Hamilton's ruling prevents the regulation from taking effect in San Francisco or Santa Clara, California; Oregon; Washington DC; Maine; and Pennsylvania.

This decision is the fifth decision against the president, or the Trump administration's policies, this Friday. Three rulings blocked the entry into force of the public charge rule, one says that the use of emergency funds to build the border wall is illegal, and in another the president lost his appeal to prevent the House of Representatives from obtaining his statements of taxes by citation.

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