The Trump administration is facing criticism after Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told senior staff at the Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) "to use all available legal authority to end any incentives in FNS benefit programs that encourage illegal immigration."
The directives are part of a recent memo reported by The Guardian in which Rollins also says that "the days in which taxpayer dollars are used to subsidize illegal immigration are over." The report by the news outlet also cites several critics of such measures which warn this could create confusion and fear among immigrant communities, potentially reducing participation in food assistance programs even among eligible recipients.
