To the editor: Properly, there it’s. Nothing extra completely encapsulates the mixture of cruelty and ignorance of the Trump administration than denying enrollment within the Head Begin program to undocumented immigrant youngsters (“New Trump rule instantly bans undocumented immigrants from Head Begin youngster care,” July 10). Head Begin gives younger youngsters with complete companies that transcend schooling, together with common medical and dental screenings, immunizations and imaginative and prescient and listening to checks. Enrollees additionally obtain healthful meals and snacks every day, together with diet assessments to help wholesome progress. This system displays developmental milestones and provides psychological well being and incapacity companies when wanted.
On what planet does it make sense to punish younger youngsters for the truth that they’re undocumented, one thing that’s not their fault? Why don’t we see this as a chance to assist these youngsters thrive and finally contribute to society irrespective of the place they find yourself? Is that this actually who we’re?
Kevin Patrick, Del Mar
This author is a professor emeritus of public well being at UC San Diego.
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To the editor: So the person who so vehemently talks down vaccines as a result of he apparently fears for the well being and well-being of kids is now gutting the very program that helps children keep wholesome and properly fed. Head Begin was shaped by President Johnson to assist underprivileged youngsters from low-income households. The lack of this assist is one other step backward by Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who by no means represents the Kennedy identify and legacy. One other unhappy day for America.
Linda Cooper, Studio Metropolis
