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Posted on 07/17/2025 2:41:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.
The information will give ICE officials the ability to find “the location of aliens” across the country, says the agreement signed Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement has not been announced publicly.
The extraordinary disclosure of millions of such personal health data to deportation officials is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which has repeatedly tested legal boundaries in its effort to arrest 3,000 people daily.
Lawmakers and some CMS officials have challenged the legality of deportation officials’ access to some states’ Medicaid enrollee data. It’s a move, first reported by the AP last month, that Health and Human Services officials said was aimed at rooting out people enrolled in the program improperly.
But the latest data-sharing agreement makes clear what ICE officials intend to do with the health data.
ICE will use the CMS data to allow ICE to receive identity and location information on aliens identified by ICE,” the agreement says.
Such disclosures, even if not acted upon, could cause widespread alarm among people seeking emergency medical help for themselves or their children. Other efforts to crack down on illegal immigration have made schools, churches, courthouses and other everyday places feel perilous to immigrants and even U.S. citizens who fear getting caught up in a raid.
HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon would not respond to the latest agreement. It is unclear, though, whether Homeland Security has...
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ALL. FEDERAL. DATA. SYSTEMS.
Trump and Musk just changed the name and purpose of an existing federal agency, and there is nothing they can do about it.
Entirely legal...entirely proper...entirely appropriate.
Just wait until Congress approves Digital Tracking/Gov’t controlled Currency.
“Potential Drawbacks:
There are also potential risks associated with CBDCs, including impacts on privacy, financial stability, and the role of commercial banks. “
“The extraordinary disclosure of millions of such personal health data to deportation officials is the latest escalation in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, which has repeatedly tested legal boundaries in its effort to arrest 3,000 people daily.”
This “extraordinary disclosure” would not be necessary if States weren’t BREAKING THE LAW by illegally signing up people.
If illegal aliens aren’t supposed to be on MEDICAID, what’s the problem?
moochers should be a top priority
As long as they use it in the capacity of their mission, that is locating and removing illegal aliens, ICE should have access to ALL Federal Data Systems. Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, IRS, Social Security, etc. ALL. Why wouldn’t they? Removing an illegal aliens from the various welfare entitlement programs is just a bonus.
And your health insurance provider sells your personal information to anyone that wants to buy it. When you apply for Medicaid, you willingly give that information to government agencies specifically for the purpose of them sharing it with other agencies and contracted entities.
Any active duty military member collecting DOD pay, government pay, does not have privacy from any agency the government deems appropriate
Correct.
I would not think that ICE would need your actual health data. Only details like addresses and immigration status. They should capped to that unless they have identified an actual illegal. Then they can have it all.
I doubt ICE will spend time perusing health data
Why was an illegal on Medicaid, sucking off the public teat?
Great news! Keep the deportations coming!
79 phucking million enrollees?
WTF!
Perhaps this will unburden our emergency rooms throughout the country. Illegals without health insurance go to ER’s for routine health care. Floods the system.
How did they g et Medicaid in the first place?
Digital Tracking/Gov’t controlled Currency! China has closed down citizen’s digital wallets!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ5qUv9sqcU
I thought Trump was against CBDC? Maybe I got it wrong.
Right?! The winning never ends with President Trump!
More ICE please!
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