New HUD Directive Will Leave 55,000 Migrant Children Homeless

One of the Trump administration’s retaliatory policies against undocumented immigrants would have a horrible unintended consequence.

Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban development plans to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing. And according to HUD’s own analysis, that plan would also toss those immigrants’ children out into the streets — 55,000 of whom are either legal permanent residents or American citizens, according to a report from the Washington Post.

Under current rules, those children are legally entitled to federal housing subsidies, according to the Post.

View the complete May 11 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.