The justices' order was a 5-4 vote and reversed a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York that kept its nationwide place in politics after lawsuits against it.
The court's four liberal judges -- Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor -- would have prevented politics from working.
Federal appeals courts in San Francisco, California and Richmond, Virginia, had previously overturned the court's decisions against the policy. The injunction in Illinois is still in effect, but only applies to that state.
Lawsuits will continue, but immigrants applying for permanent residence must prove that they will not be public charges or burdens on the country.
The new policy dramatically expands the factors that can be considered to make this decision, and if it is decided that immigrants can become public charges at any time in the future, legal residence can be denied.
Approximately 544,000 people apply for green cards annually. According to the government, there are 382,000 in categories that make them subject to new review.
Immigrants make up a small part of the people who receive general benefits, because many are not eligible for them because of their immigration status.
'Shameful'
Immigrant rights groups and lawyers criticized the decision online, saying it was "undoubtedly a political opinion."
"Terrible news, no doubt political opinion. The Supreme Court's record on Trump-era immigration orders is totally untenable. There is no defensible argument that a stay of the public indictment causes irreparable harm to the government."/"Melnick, policy adviser at the U.S. Immigration Board.
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