Trump Administration Bans Illegal Immigrants From Taxpayer-funded Services, Including Head Start

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The Trump management announced Thursday that nan Department of Health and Human Services will prohibition illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded services, including nan celebrated Head Start early puerility acquisition program. 

The agency announced that it will rescind nan 1998 mentation of nan Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), which extended definite national nationalist benefits to those surviving successful nan United States illegally. 

"For excessively long, nan authorities has diverted hardworking Americans’ taxation dollars to incentivize forbidden immigration," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "Today’s action changes that — it restores integrity to national societal programs, enforces nan norm of law, and protects captious resources for nan American people."

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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced Thursday HHS will prohibit forbidden immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded programs.  (Getty Images)

The PRWORA, known arsenic use reform, passed during nan Clinton management and granted states greater autonomy to negociate societal use programs. 

The caller argumentation applies PRWORA’s plain-language meaning of a "federal nationalist benefit," affirms that programs serving individuals, households aliases families are taxable to eligibility restrictions and clarifies that nary HHS programs person been formally exempted nether PRWORA’s constricted exceptions, HHS said. 

Among nan programs nary longer accessible to forbidden immigrants will beryllium Head Start, an early childhood education and nutrition programme for low-income families. 

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A first people schoolroom pinch an American flag.  (John Paraskevas/Newsday RM)

An HHS preliminary study estimates American citizens could person arsenic overmuch arsenic $374 cardinal successful further Head Start services annually.

"Alongside HHS, nan Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is committed to providing and protecting resources that service America’s astir vulnerable," said acting Assistant Secretary Andrew Gradison. "Head Start’s classification nether nan caller PRWORA mentation puts American families first by ensuring taxpayer-funded benefits are reserved for eligible individuals."

Other services now classified nether nan "federal nationalist benefit" class see assistance programs for workforce programs, intelligence wellness and substance abuse, among others. 

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