A federal judge on Thursday issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against a directive from the Trump administration banning undocumented children from enrolling in Head Start.

The ruling came after Head Start associations in multiple states sued over the Trump change from this spring.

The directive “results in parents losing childcare, risking missed work, unemployment, forced dropouts, and inability to pay life expenses and support families,” Judge Ricardo Martinez said in his ruling.

The Hill has reached out to the Department of Health and Human Services, which runs the early childhood program from low-income families, for comment.

The ruling accompanied another lawsuit by Democratic attorneys general that challenged the policy and won a temporary injunction in their own states

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