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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States,
An agreement between the Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid was obtained by the AP. The report indicates that ICE will be able to access personal data, including addresses and ethnicities of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees.
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Health and Human Services' decision to hand over Medicaid data raises privacy concerns. Immigrants in most states are already ineligible for Medicaid.
The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.
Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations. MSNBC Legal Analyst Melissa Murray breaks down what this means and how immigrant rights groups are trying to inform people of their rights.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons tells CBS News that the agency's access to personal data of Medicaid enrollees will help officers locate "people that have been lawfully deported" by a judge or released from a sanctuary jurisdiction.
The plan is the latest step by the Trump administration to gather sensitive information about people living in the U.S. as it seeks to crack down on illegal immigration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been granted access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid users.
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Trump administration allows ICE to use Medicaid data for immigration enforcement as 20 states filed lawsuit claiming the transfer of health information violates federal laws.
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
For the patients who rely on Medi-Cal, the cuts aren’t just scary — they feel existential. Teodora, a 77-year-old undocumented woman from Mexico who declined to give her last name, is one of them.