A federal judge has temporarily blocked top health officials from sharing Medicaid enrollees’ personal data with immigration authorities, dealing a blow to attempts from President Donald Trump’s administration to tap into sensitive data to expand his mass deportation agenda.
The Department of Homeland Security is blocked from Medicaid data in 20 states that sued the administration, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services cannot share that data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help with arrests and removal operations, according to Tuesday’s ruling.
