New DOJ Opinion Forces WA to Report Undocumented Immigrants or Lose $300 Million in TANF Funds

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion dated September 1 that interprets a 1996 federal welfare law to require every agency in a participating state — not just welfare offices — to report to the Department of Homeland Security any person the state “knows” is not lawfully present […]