Trump administration sued for giving Medicaid data to deportation officials

Twenty states say giving immigrants' health data to DHS broke privacy laws and threatens access to emergency care

The Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a group of 20 states allege in a lawsuit.

Last month health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC to the Department of Homeland Security.