California has secured a court order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from barring immigrants living in the country illegally from accessing dozens of federally funded programs, including child care, health care and education services.

As part of the Trump administration’s proposed change, federally funded programs would be required to verify recipients’ immigration status — reversing a Clinton administration policy that extended “public benefit” programs to people living in the country without legal permission. The Trump administration said the change was necessary to ensure taxpayer-funded “public resources are no longer used to incentivize illegal immigration.”

The new court order comes a few months after California Attorney General Rob Bonta and 20 other state leaders su

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