Bonta: California 'Moving Quickly' to Block Trump Administration’s Data-Sharing
California is “moving quickly” to block the Trump administration from illegally sharing individuals’ sensitive information for immigration enforcement purposes, Attorney General Ron Bonta (D) said Thursday.
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Bonta responded to media reports that the Department of Health & Human Services agreed to share the healthcare data of 80 million Medicaid participants with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (see 2507170042). California earlier this month led a multistate coalition suing HHS for providing individuals' health data to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Trump Administration “appears to have entered into a new illegal data-sharing agreement with ICE,” said Bonta. “We are moving quickly to secure a court order blocking the sharing of this data for immigration enforcement. The President’s efforts to pull personal, private, and unrelated health data to create a mass deportation machine cannot be allowed to continue.”