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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.
Impact Fund & Co-Counsel Seek Injunction to Halt Trump Administration’s Dismantling of Head Start
In May, a coalition of Head Start associations and parent organizations, represented by the Impact Fund, ACLU, Crowell & Moring LLP, and Feldesman Leifer LLP, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s attacks on the Head Start program.
The program provides comprehensive early education services to over 800,000 children and families nationwide each year.
Impact Fund & Amici Urge Ninth circuit to Affirm The preliminary injunction Blocking Trump Admin From Dismantling Refugee Admissions Program
Last month, the Impact Fund, Justice in Aging, Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and fellow social justice organizations filed an amicus brief in Pacito v. Trump in the Ninth Circuit. Pacito v. Trump, No. 2:25-cv-2:55 (W.D. Wash.).
On appeal, our amicus brief emphasizes the critical role of refugee resettlement partners in helping older adult refugees adjust to life in the United States.
Impact Fund & AMICI Urge Sixth Circuit to Affirm Class Certification in Discriminatory Water Billing Case
In October 2024, the Impact Fund and fellow amici Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Centro Legal de la Raza, Legal Aid at Work, and Public Counsel, filed a brief urging the Sixth Circuit to uphold the federal district court’s certification of a class of Black Cleveland residents who brought a lawsuit alleging discriminatory water billing practices by the City.