Exclusive: Trump’s draft plan to punish legal immigrants for sending US-born kids to Head Start
Or getting insured through the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or getting assistance to heat their homes.
By Dara Linddara@vox.com Updated Feb 8, 2018, 7:37pm EST
The Trump administration is working on new rules that would allow the government to keep immigrants from settling in the US, or even force them to leave, if their families had used a broad swath of local, state, or federal social services to which they’re legally entitled — even enrolling their US-born children in Head Start or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
A draft of the new regulation, posted first by Vox, can be found at the bottom of this article or on DocumentCloud. (If the DocumentCloud link does not work for you, here is a direct link to the PDF.) Reuters originally reported on the existence of the draft regulation Thursday.
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/8/1699317...-public-charge
