Washington (AP) – Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers will be given access to personal data of 79 million Medicade Enrolls in the country, according to an agreement received by Associated Press, which cannot be legally alive in the United States to track the migrants that are to track those migrants.
This information will give ICE officials the ability to find “location of aliens” across the country, on Monday’s agreement between the Center of Medicare and Medicade Services and the Department of Homeland Security. The agreement has not been announced publicly.
Exceptional disclosure of millions of such individual health data for exile officers is the latest increase in the immigration crack of Trump Administration, which has repeatedly tested legal limitations in its efforts of arrest 3,000 people daily,
MPs and some CMS authorities have challenged the validity of exile officers’ access to medicid enrollly data of some states. This is a step, earlier reported by AP last month, that health and human service officials stated that the objective was improperly to vest the nominees in the program.
But the latest data-sharing agreement makes it clear what ICE officials have intended to do with health data.
The agreement states, “ICE CMS data will use CMS data to get information and location information on aliens identified by ICE by ICE.”
HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon will not respond to the latest agreement. However, it is not clear whether the Homeland Security has so far reached the information. The department’s Assistant Secretary, Trisia McLaglin, said in an email statement that the two agencies are “searching for an initiative to ensure that illegal aliens are not getting medicade benefits that are for Americans who follow the law.”
Kimberly Kindi and Amanda Setz, Associated Press