Top officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs declined to step in to try to exempt veterans and their families from a new immigration rule that would make it far easier to deny green cards to low-income immigrants, according to documents
By Yeganeh Torbati, Isaac Arnsdorf and Dara Lind, ProPublica
The measure, which would also stop federal officials from forcing some criminal veterans out of the country, failed to gain legislative traction last year.
The military services will start sending their backlogs of green-card holders to recruit training after a preliminary injunction issued in federal court.