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Connie Chung Joe, executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, said she has been told of Asian immigrants canceling medical appointments because they are afraid of being seen as a public charge.

Trump added Medicaid and other noncash programs to the traditional roster of cash programs such as food stamps as signs the recipients would become a public charge.

A related proposal would reinstate the tightened standards for the “public charge” rule instituted in the first Trump term.

His house had been foreclosed on, and he was himself, as the New York Times described him, a “white-haired, tattered public charge.”

Under the “public charge” rule, people can be blocked from getting a green card or citizenship if they are likely to become “primarily dependent” on government aid.