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Immigration expert: ICE’s Medicaid move is about ‘stripping U.S. citizenship’ for deportationThe Trump administration is granting ICE access to personal data of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees to ensure undocumented immigrants do not have access, which is already illegal. Cato Institute Director of immigration studies David Bier joins The Weekend to discuss.
Todd Lyons, the acting ICE director, told CBS News he will allow agents to continue wearing masks due to concerns about their safety.
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The Trump administration will give Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to the personal data of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, a trove that includes names, addresses, birth dates, race and ethnicity,
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The Trump administration authorized ICE to access Medicaid data. This included sensitive information of 79 million enrollees. The goal was to locate undocumented immigrants. This data sharing raised privacy and legal concerns.