Jennifer Ludden

Supporters also say there are such long waiting lists for rental aid, it's more fair to spread it around.

Critics of the proposed rule say most people who can work already do, they just don't make enough to pay market rate rents.

A few places have experimented with time limits but dropped them because as the cutoffs approached, they worried they'd be pushing people into homelessness.

Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.

Undocumented immigrants do not get federal housing subsidies, but current law lets them live with relatives who do.

The idea is to keep families together.

Conservatives argue this is not fair since there's not nearly enough rental aid to meet the need, and many wait years to get it.

Immigrant and housing advocates point out that since mixed-status families get less aid, they actually pay higher rents.

effectively subsidizing others.

They also worry large-scale evictions in some places could push people into deeper poverty or even homelessness.

The proposed rule will be open for public comment and could eventually face a legal challenge.

Jennifer Ludden, NPR News, Washington.

When ICE agents arrested one 20-year-old refugee, his mother says she felt the same fear her family had fled in Venezuela.

Their masked paramilitary groups kidnapped people, she says.

She did not want to use her name for fear of retaliation.

The Trump administration says it's reviewing refugee cases for potential fraud.

But Jane Grotman with the International Institute of Minnesota says they are already intensely vetted.

You know, the FBI has already checked them.

They've had biometric screenings.

Many have been detained in Texas, then released with no charges.