Start the Public Charge Project

[dotj]

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) would like help collecting and storing data from a regulation.gov page for a proposed “Public Charge” rule which targets immigrants who may depend on government benefits.

We want to collect 1) Primary Documents; 2) Supporting Documents; and 3) Comments and automatically store them in a database.

The regulation.gov page is: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=USCIS-2010-0012

Current Timeline:

• The comment period closes on December 10.
• This proposal is being presented on October 23.
• Goal: to have the database capturing data by the first week in November.

Skills needed include:

• Data/web scraping
• Database setup

Full proposal from the NILC: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PGrztVYkdlTfuXADx9kI0vQciXf3fRpJrgTlV76DPTI/edit?usp=sharing

[alejandrox1]

Hi, world. I started doing some work related to this issue https://github.com/alejandrox1/scrapers/tree/master/regulationgov

[dotj]

Thanks @alejandrox1 ! Like I mentioned on slack - go ahead and submit a PR with your script and we can start reviewing. :)

I can create subsequent issues for the remaining tasks as well.

[dotj]

Approved and merged your proof of concept, @alejandrox1, thanks for getting this started! I'll "assign" this task to you, mark this as done, and split off the remaining task into other issues.