ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees' personal information
The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents walk down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago on Jan. 26.Christopher Dilts / Bloomberg via Getty Images file
July 17, 2025, 4:55 PM EDT / Updated July 17, 2025, 6:16 PM EDT
By Nicole Acevedo, Laura Strickler and Alicia Victoria Lozano
The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations.
In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as "an initiative" to ensure undocumented immigrants don't access Medicaid benefits. ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees' personal information
The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents walk down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago on Jan. 26.
July 17, 2025, 4:55 PM EDT / Updated July 17, 2025, 6:16 PM EBy Nicole Acevedo, Laura Strickler and Alicia Victoria Lozano
The Trump administration will start sharing the personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, with federal immigration authorities as the president seeks to ramp up deportations.
In a statement to NBC News on Thursday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin described the latest data-sharing agreement between her agency and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as "an initiative" to ensure undocumented immigrants don't access Medicaid benefits.

ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees' personal information
The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.
