A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from barring migrants living in the U.S. illegally from accessing numerous federally funded services, including Head Start preschools, health clinics, and food banks.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy in Providence, Rhode Island, at the behest of 21 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, issued a preliminary injunction preventing rules from taking effect that imposed new immigration-related restrictions on a variety of programs.

Those new policies were adopted as part of Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda beginning on July 10 by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, Labor, and Justice and marked a shift in how the government interpreted a 1996 law that limited migrants’ acc

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