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Trump administration bans illegal immigrants from taxpayer-funded services, including Head Start

The Trump administration announced Thursday that the Department of Health and Human Services will ban illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded services, including the popular Head Start early childhood education program. The agency announced that it will rescind the 1998 interpretation of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), which extended certain federal public benefits to those living in the United States illegally. "For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration," said...