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Medicaid enrollment and immigration enforcement

The impact of using Medicaid data for immigration enforcement on Medicaid enrollment and public health.

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Jan 22, 2026
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did ICE use medicaid data to arrest illegals

Yes — federal reporting and court records show has obtained and used Medicaid-derived information as part of tools and processes to locate people who may be in the country unlawfully, though the pract...

Feb 1, 2026

Which specific federal programs would see the largest dollar decreases for states if noncitizens were excluded from the census?

from the census would shrink the population base that federal formula allocations rely on and therefore reduce funding for many programs that use Census-derived population counts; the most vulnerable ...