Trump Administration Moves to Prevent
Illegal Aliens from Accessing Head Start Program
National Review,
by
James Lynch
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
7/11/2025 12:18:03 AM
Two federal agencies are preventing illegal immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded programs with the goal of ensuring U.S. taxpayer dollars only serve American citizens.
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Education both announced plans to limit taxpayer subsidization of illegal aliens in compliance with federal law. The moves are part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to disincentivize illegal immigration and prevent taxpayer dollars from supporting it.
HHS is barring illegal immigrants from receiving public benefits by rescinding a Clinton-era interpretation of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA). The Clinton administration’s 1998 policy allowed illegal aliens to access congressionally mandated programs. Now, the Trump administration is reinterpreting
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 7/11/2025 12:22:14 AM (No. 1975732)
Great, NOTHING for illegals except deportation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/11/2025 1:13:55 AM (No. 1975738)
The libs will add this to their long list of grievances against Pres. Trump. He is such a meanie. FJB let them in. The least we can do is to support them every step of the way by throwing tax payer money and other free stuff at them in exchange for their future votes. They had the opportunity to leave on their own. Those who have chosen to stay will now have the rug pulled out from beneath them. They are being told up close and personal that we owe them nothing and we have every intention of doing nothing for you except fly you home. The dems will call us evil and cruel and how dare we be so mean. And they will happily call them neighbors, and workers and migrants. So benign. They are illegal aliens. They have no right to be here. We have Americans who don't want to work for all the goodies that have been bestowed on them. We don't need more. I'm sorry. go home and apply the correct way. I am not your keeper and the government isn't either. If FJB hadn't let us be invaded we would not have to be doing this. To let anyone and everyone waltz into this country borders on treason.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/11/2025 3:29:05 AM (No. 1975747)
Every rock you pick up, the underside is on the taxpayer's payroll. No wonder we are broke.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
singermom9 7/11/2025 5:31:33 AM (No. 1975752)
Trump should announce that if the Police, ICE or Border Security catch any of these INSURRECTIONIST RIOTERS throwing something or attacking them they will be INELIGIBLE for ANY AND ALL GOVERNMENT WELFARE MONEY forever. Retinal eye scan, fingerprints and DNA will be taken just in case they change their name. Wanna stop this FAST? Threaten to take away their money.
Soros many pay them for their time but he will NOT pay to keep them forever monetarily.
These INSURRECTIONISTS WEARING MASKS most likely live off of government welfare programs. I bet most have no job. (Unless you count getting paid to RIOT). If we take away their section 8 or other benefits I bet they would all go home.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
singermom9 7/11/2025 5:42:26 AM (No. 1975753)
BTW re #4. This is true. Benefits can be removed for certain behaviors, like selling drugs or offering false in and the list goes on. I would think BREAKING FEDERAL LAW against your country could count. Or charge them w TREASON.
Hire more police and have one group go after these MASKED INSURREECTIONISTS and the other police go after the illegals.
response: to this question I asked in internet "If you riot against the government can you lose government welfare program money"?
Lawful protest is the right and duty of citizens to alter or abolish any government that does not secure unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, participating in illegal activities or welfare fraud can result in imprisonment, fines, and loss of access to certain benefits
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 7/11/2025 6:28:31 AM (No. 1975766)
Okay, denying them head start is good, along with post secondary; it's also that in between. Still waiting on K-12, Title one funds, government grants, etc.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/11/2025 7:26:43 AM (No. 1975790)
Head Start is an expensive joke for all participants. The main purpose is to feed kids whose parents neglect them and provide activities. From there they move on to part 2 of the joke, which is public education.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 7/11/2025 7:35:54 AM (No. 1975800)
It should be made crystal clear to these invaders that; if you self-deport and take the $1,000 on your way out, when you are caught in this country illegally again...you will repay the $1,000 at prison labor, at $1 an hour, for 50 hours a week, for 20 weeks. Followed by deportation. Third time here; same job; 2 years, no pay. And first timers must provide a complete bank of identifiers: photos, fingerprints, retinal scan and DNA, for later comparison.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
downnout 7/11/2025 8:05:33 AM (No. 1975813)
People can come into our country illegally and are given all kinds of benefits, courtesy of the taxpayers. If I want to take a college course I have to pay for it. Why?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
skacmar 7/11/2025 8:05:56 AM (No. 1975814)
The media will run this with a room full of children with a few children and parents crying to the reporter (through translators) about how their kids chances at a better life is being ripped away and how they came here for a better future. The teacher will then say how how smart and happy the children are and they will lose the benefits of their early education. Is it sad for the kids, sure. But they should be at school in their home country along with their parents. Too many Head Start classrooms are full because of people who should not be there. This will open up spots for children of citizens.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 7/11/2025 9:02:50 AM (No. 1975845)
DEPORT!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/11/2025 10:06:02 AM (No. 1975875)
Before I retired, my office had a Christmas tree ("holiday tree") in the lobby with the wish lists on cards of Head Start children. The idea was for employees to take a card and buy the stuff the child wanted. I perused the cards, and found not one American name - all were a variety of obivous foreign nationalities. No wonder we have illegals all over our country - we pay them to come.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
janjan 7/11/2025 11:48:31 AM (No. 1975928)
What the liberals won’t admit is that illegals flood our schools and social programs demanding that we feed and clothe them and educate their children. Few even speak English. Legal Americans wait in line behind these people. Even worse, when action is taken to remove them out come their native flags. Is this meant to persuade or intimidate? It’s not working. This is one thing that most Americans agree on.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 7/11/2025 2:42:04 PM (No. 1976011)
Irony: The sad truth is that Head Start itself has long been shown to have very little effect -- if any -- on kids' subsequent school performance, and that, at best, only for a short term. Another government "augmented" service that cannot produce the effect of a stable home.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 7/11/2025 2:49:47 PM (No. 1976015)
Followup to the last post -- children who enjoyed exposure to Head Start as 3-yr.-olds scored worse in kindergarten on math comprehension than those who didn't.
At least tends to confirm the harsh-sounding judgment of an earlier post -- Head Start is sought by parents who have trouble feeding, let alone acculturating, their children -- not the parents who can, at least for the year, take care of their own.
All of this can sound cruel to the hapless deserve some compassion. But not the kind practiced by the Welfare State.
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