Bars public schools and colleges from sheltering noncitizens not admitted to the U.S.

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The bill would make it a condition of federal funding that public elementary and secondary schools and colleges not use their facilities to shelter or house noncitizens who have not been lawfully admitted to the United States.^2,3,4 The ban would apply to emergency shelter or housing provided only to such noncitizens on the orders of a federal, state or local government.⁴ It would not apply to short-term emergency shelter, lasting no more than 72 hours, needed because of a declared disaster such as a fire, flood, hurricane or tornado.^3,4

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