A federal judge has allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to obtain basic Medicaid data on illegal immigrants as part of its enforcement operations.
In a preliminary injunction on Dec. 29, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said that federal law allowed the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to share basic biographical, location, and contact information with ICE. Chhabria’s order stopped short of allowing other information to be shared, stating that ICE was too vague in its explanation of what other types of information it would seek and its reasons for doing so.
