Federal Judge Halts Health Department’s Dangerous Data Sharing with Deportation Agencies

In a decisive rebuke to federal overreach, a U.S. district judge has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to cease its controversial practice of providing immigration enforcement officials unfettered access to the sensitive personal information of nearly 79 million Medicaid enrollees nationwide. This ruling comes after an alarming revelation that HHS had quietly handed over data—including Social Security numbers and home addresses—to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without public notification or transparent justification. When Privacy Becomes a Pawn in Political Power Plays The Trump administration initially spearheaded this aggressive data-sharing maneuver as part of its broad...