Trump Administration Allows ICE Access to Medicaid Data

The Trump administration is letting ICE look at the personal information of 79 million people on Medicaid, like their addresses and ethnicities.

The goal is to find immigrants who might not be in the US legally.

This means ICE can try to locate them.

Some people think this is a privacy problem and breaks promises about how the government would use this information.

Others say it's to make sure only those who are supposed to get Medicaid benefits actually do.

ICE won't be able to take the data, but they can look at it during work hours until September.