The Trump administration is allowing the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to access the personal information of Medicaid enrollees to assist them in catching illegal immigrants .

ICE will now be able to access the home addresses and ethnicities, as well as other personal information, of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees. The arrangement has not been announced yet.

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Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin told NBC News that the agreement between DHS and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid S

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