Trump-Era Medicaid Data Sharing with ICE: A Look Back at Controversial Immigration Enforcement
Trump-Era Medicaid Data Sharing with ICE: A Look Back at Controversial Immigration Enforcement A past initiative from the Trump administration sparked considerable alarm among immigrant communities and privacy advocates by seeking to transfer sensitive personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients to federal immigration officials. This plan, which emerged during the Trump presidency, aimed to grant Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) broader access to locate individuals suspected of being undocumented. An agreement signed between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…