Immigration expert: ICE’s Medicaid move is about ‘stripping U.S. citizenship’ for deportation
MSNBC·2025-07-19 16:23
In its latest move to escalate mass deportations, the Trump administration is granting ICE access to the personal data of nearly 79 million Medicaid enroles, including home addresses and ethnicity details under a new agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services. A DHS spokesperson tells NBC News, "This is about ensuring undocumented immigrants don't access Medicaid, even though it's already illegal for undocumented immigrants to receive benefits. Immigration advocates are calling it a dangerou ...