Posted on 06/14/2025 3:59:37 AM PDT by CFW
WASHINGTON — (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move that could make it easier to locate people as part of his sweeping immigration crackdown.
An internal memo and emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns.
Nevertheless, two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the dataset handed over to the Department of Homeland Security, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tuesday to comply with the directive.
The dataset includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., all of which allow non-U. S. citizens to enroll in Medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars. CMS transferred the information just as the Trump administration was ramping up its enforcement efforts in Southern California.
Besides helping authorities locate migrants, experts said, the government could also use the information to scuttle the hopes of migrants seeking green cards, permanent residency or citizenship if they had ever obtained Medicaid benefits funded by the federal government.
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And before anyone asks. Yes, I voted for this.
They can go to Kuba and get that great health care that the commies always blab about.
Don’t come here for free health care.
“They can go to Kuba and get that great health care that the commies always blab about.”
Or Kanada. That place from whence come the upper-crust elite of the country to the USA for speedy treatment, leaving the hoi polloi behind to wait months for FREE commie treatment.
I always loved visiting Canada, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t want to live there. Our healthcare system took a big hit in 2010 with Obamacare, and another hit in 2020 with Covid, and we’ll probably never recover. Still, it most likely is still one of the best in the world. (Admit that I don’t know for sure.)
Cut away.
i am very not pleased with the modifications to ICE schedule.
Excepting service industry and agriculture.
Some industries are allowed to human traffic? The law needs to be applied evenly. Staying here needs to be disincentivized. Employers need to be at minimum fined and executives personally held liable for illegal alien employment.
The Clinton era plan for America as a service provider economy and not have manufacturing in the country is coming to fruition.
Democrats have ALWAYS been about exploiting humans.
Yes yes yes yes!
And to think, they and their gringo massas claim they only came here to clean our toilets and bring us our chips and salsa. You know. The stuff we don’t want to do. The Vermonsters use them to wipe their butts according to VT Congresscreep, Becca Balint.
Krussia? KEU? Kchina? Kchinga? Kchoga? Kowabunga?
Their illegals
They are crimmals
They steal from Citizens
Why are Democrats so pro-lawlessness and anti-police? Doesn’t seem like a good platform. Their “We Hate Trump” craziness doesn’t show leadership.
Good !
That’s a biggie———Besides helping authorities locate migrants, the govt could also use the info
<><>to scuttle the hopes of migrants seeking green cards,
<><>those wanting permanent residency or citizenship
<><>based on obtaining Medicaid benefits funded by the feds (taxpayers).
Colorado should also be on the list!
“including the immigration status”
Oh Noo’s. They’re gonna find out if people are illegally on Medicaid.
Illegals getting free healthcare is a big part of the the healthcare problem. Their employers get low wages without paying benefits, and the American taxpayer pays for their healthcare. It’s long past time that this BS stops.
NYS cost shares Medicaid with counties.
There’s a very good reason why NYS has so many property tax foreclosures.
"Under the public charge rule, immigrants to the United States classified as Likely or Liable to become a Public Charge may be denied visas or permission to enter the country due to their disabilities or lack of economic resources. The term was introduced in the Immigration Act of 1882. The restriction has remained a major cause for denial of visas and lawful permanent residency ever since; in 1992, about half of those denied immigrant and non-immigrant visas for substantive reasons were denied due to the public charge rule.[1] However, the administrative definition of "public charge" has been subject to major changes, notably in 1999 and 2019."
Sounds good to me, by law they aren’t supposed to receive it to begin with. I have no doubt they will find the majority in democrat states like California, Oregon, Washington, New York, etc.
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