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Impact Fund & Co-Counsel Challenge New HHS Directive Excluding Families from Head Start Based on Immigration Status
Head Start, Temporary Restraining Order John Henry Frankel Head Start, Temporary Restraining Order John Henry Frankel

Impact Fund & Co-Counsel Challenge New HHS Directive Excluding Families from Head Start Based on Immigration Status

On July 14, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new directive that makes immigration status an eligibility requirement for Head Start for the first time in the program’s sixty-year history. On July 21, we filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to stop the Immigrant Exclusion Directive from going into effect.

The Trump Administration estimates that the Immigrant Exclusion Directive excludes at least 500,000 children from Head Start.

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