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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A national tribunal has temporarily blocked migration authorities from accessing Medicaid information successful California.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a preliminary injunction this week, halting entree for agencies specified arsenic Immigration and Customs Enforcement to idiosyncratic information, including addresses, for now.
“What it means is that astatine slightest for the adjacent 14 days, the national government, oregon truly Health and Human Services and Medicaid specifically, is blocked from sharing the information,” said Fresno Immigration Attorney George Rios of Cook & Olson.
The ruling follows a suit from 20 states that argued determination was nary ceremonial decision-making process down eliminating the long-standing argumentation that kept definite Medicaid information abstracted from national migration enforcement.
“They conscionable decided, ‘You cognize what, we’re going to extremity this,’” Rios said. “And it’s been authoritative argumentation for good implicit 10 years that this benignant of accusation was not going to beryllium shared betwixt agencies.”
Rios said sharing the information has created fearfulness among galore noncitizens successful California.
“There are radical who volition halt going to the doc conscionable due to the fact that they are afraid,” helium said. “There are radical who volition effort to unenroll from services they already suffice for.”
GOP Assemblymember David Tangipa, who represents California's 8th District, called the ruling different illustration of judicial overreach against the Trump administration’s agenda.
“It’s a ruling that tells beauteous overmuch the full enforcement subdivision that they don’t person the right, Homeland Security and a batch of these groups, to entree that information,” Tangipa said.
He tells YourCentralValley.com that helium expects the lawsuit to scope the U.S. Supreme Court.
"It should spell to the Supreme Court to settee wherever are the powers enumerated?," helium said. "To the executive? Or to, potentially, a territory judge?"
