The Trump administration is forging ahead with a plan that is sure to fuel alarm across California's immigrant communities: handing over the personal data of millions of Medicaid recipients to federal immigration officials who seek to track down people living in the U.

The Trump administration is allowing U.S. 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 address and ethnicities,