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LOS ANGELES - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials will be granted access to the personal data of 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including their home addresses and ethnicities.

What we know:

An agreement signed on Monday between the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Homeland Security grants ICE officials access to personal data of the nation's 79 million Medicaid enrollees.

This data includes names, addresses, birthdates, ethnic and racial information, and social security numbers.

The stated purpose of this access, according to the agreement, is to "receive identity and location information on aliens identified by ICE."

This data sharing is part of an escalated immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.

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