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States say ICE pulled Medicaid data despite court order

A coalition of 22 states told a federal court that The Trump administration appears to have violated a court order limiting health data shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings.
Last December, a federal court permitted ICE to access basic Medicaid data to locate unauthorized individuals, while barring information collection on citizens and lawful permanent residents.
States claim the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shared a "large and complex" set of Medicaid data with ICE, yet the government has not confirmed whether it is filtering out protected individuals.
Plaintiffs now seek court authorization to examine the shared data and confirm that "lawfully residing" includes noncitizens with legal status; a hearing is scheduled in San Francisco on April 30.
Advocates warn that sharing partial information prompts immigrants to forgo health coverage, while The Trump administration has not yet responded to the filing.

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22 states accuse Trump of violating court order on Medicaid-ICE data sharing

A coalition of 22 states told a federal court that the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order that limited the types of health data that could be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings.Back in December, a court allowed ICE to pull some basic information from Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program that primarily covers people with low incomes, to help the agency find peo…

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