I’m not sure why Democrats are so incensed by this, because they keep saying
So, then why the caterwauling over ICE getting access?
ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees’ personal information
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.
The Associated Press first reported the new agreement, which hasn’t been made public yet.
Immigrants who lack legal status and some lawfully present immigrants are already barred from enrolling in Medicaid, a federal health services program that provides nearly free coverage to beneficiaries. Yet federal law requires all states to offer emergency Medicaid, temporary coverage that pays only for lifesaving services in emergency rooms to anyone regardless of immigration status.
Medicaid is a jointly funded program between states and the federal government.
Does anyone really think they aren’t getting Medicaid in deep Democrat states? Because if they weren’t Democrats wouldn’t care.
Under the agreement, officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement will use Medicaid data to get identity and location information of people ICE believes are in the country unlawfully, the AP reported.
ICE will have access to a database that includes the names, addresses, birth dates, ethnic and racial information, as well as Social Security numbers for all people enrolled in Medicaid, the AP reported. The agreement allows ICE to review the database only from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday until Sept. 9. It isn’t allowed to download the data.
Obviously, ICE knows something. They aren’t just on a fishing expedition, which would be a big waste of manpower. They know what they’re looking for.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state is moving quickly to obtain a court order to block the sharing of data for immigration enforcement.
If there is nothing there why bother?
from the article…
No country on Earth has more Federal Police Forces than does our U.S.A!! ICE, ATF, DEA, FBI, CBP, Secret Service… Our Federales are becoming militarized more and more. Mr trump is blurring he lines between our actual military and the police. Once they’ve captured and expelled all the bad hombres What will they do with their “free” time? Uncer a right-wing fascist they’ll be used to harass political enemies and “the other”.
Under a left-wing commie president, who knows, LOL? Buckle up. This is why trump is working to secure eternal ‘electoral’ advantages for the MAGA Official Party (MOP).
There was a time when our conservative brethren feared federal overreach! Good times.
The illegals are legally ineligible for Medicaid, so if none are on there, no one will get deported. But if there are illegals on Medicaid, that will stand as evidence that they’ve been scamming the system all along, and that sympathetic leftists have been allowing them to do so.
The estimable Mr Dana is mistaken.
Granted the hateful MAGA-GOP could change the laws, and the Demeneted, Edematous Donnie would surely sign whatever Miller/Vought/Vance put in front of him. But for now it appears it’s illegal for the Federal Police to access the information. But “illegal” only applies to “the people” not the fascists. The trump strategy is to violate he law and fight the legal battles – in government as in his business life.
Note: The Director of CMS is the odious puppet, Dr Mamet Oz, who reports to the even more odious RFK Jr. Both ‘men’ will do whatever Miller/Vought/Vance tell trump to tell them.