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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.