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Trump Administration Gives Deportation Officials Medicaid Records on Millions of Immigrants
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The Trump administration this week supplied the Department of Homeland Security with a database containing personal information on millions of Medicaid beneficiaries who are immigrants, internal documents obtained by the Associated Press show. The dataset—covering enrollees in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C.—includes names, addresses and immigration status, giving Immigration and Customs Enforcement new tools for locating individuals targeted in the administration’s immigration crackdown. Emails reviewed by multiple news outlets indicate that senior aides to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the handover despite objections from some Medicaid officials, who warned that repurposing health records for immigration enforcement could violate privacy protections and suppress enrollment. The disclosure marks the first known use of federal health-care data for immigration operations, drawing criticism from public-health advocates and legal scholars. The White House and DHS have not yet commented on the transfer.
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What cabinet official in President Trumps administration will resign or be fired?
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Will over 1 million non-citizens be deported by the US in 2025?
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Conditional on Trump being elected, how many H1B recipients will be admitted in the USA in 2026?
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A Sikh homeland of Khalistan is recognized by any UN security council member by end 2032
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