ICE gains access to Medicaid enrollee data including addresses and ethnicities to help track and deport illegal immigrants.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was recently granted access to Medicaid enrollee data, aiding officers tasked with fulfilling the Trump administration’s objective of tracking down and deporting illegal immigrants.
Medicaid, which uses taxpayer dollars to provide health insurance to low-income adults and children, has more than 71 million enrollees as of March 2025.
The information shared with ICE will include home addresses and ethnicities, according to a report from The Associated Press.
The agreement, brokered between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), was signed Monday, according to the report.
Though the true number of illegal immigrants on Medicaid is unknown, about 1.
