{"id":705722,"date":"2026-09-02T23:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705722"},"modified":"2026-09-02T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:15:05","slug":"new-rule-doj-says-states-must-now-report-illegal-aliens-to-dhs-or-lose-federal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705722","title":{"rendered":"NEW RULE | DOJ says states must now report illegal aliens to DHS \u2014 or lose federal funding."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a new legal opinion.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>The DOJ, in issuing the opinion, revised the Office of Legal Counsel\u2019s prior opinion from 1998, which found that only specific state agencies that administered the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Security Income programs needed to provide information to federal immigration authorities.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWhen a state chooses to participate in TANF, it accepts the obligation to report illegal aliens in the United States,\u201d Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gaiser said. \u201cTax dollars intended to help vulnerable Americans should not perversely encourage illegal entry into the United States, but rather should reinforce our laws and our borders.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/02\/doj-states-undocumented-immigrants-dhs-funds.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/09\/02\/doj-states-undocumented-immigrants-dhs-funds.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All states going forward must report undocumented immigrants known to be in a state to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security or risk losing federal funding for programs meant to aid low-income individuals, the Department of Justice said in a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705722\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705724,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705722\/revisions\/705724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}