20 States File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration

The lawsuit comes as ICE agents have been conducting arrests of migrants with unlawful status in the U.S..

20 states have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for sharing medicaid data with immigration officials.

The suit argues that the administration violated the law in sharing data with ICE that had nothing to do with administering the health care program.

The states argue that failure to notify them of data sharing plans violates the Administrative Procedures Act, as well as the Social Security Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, and the Privacy Act.

The data shared includes the information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., all of which allow Non-U.S. citizens to enroll in medicaid programs that pay for their expenses using state taxpayer dollars.

The lawsuit comes as ICE agents have been conducting arrests of migrants with unlawful status in the U.S..