The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home addresses and ethnicities, to track down immigrants who may not be living legally in the United States, according to an agreement obtained by The Associated Press.

If approved by council at the Aug. 5 meeting, Keller law enforcement officers would be a part of ICE's 287 (g) program. The program authorizes state and local officers to "perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency's direction and oversight," according to the website.

The Trump administration has dramatically curtailed the ability for those facing deportation to be released from immigration detention.

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not targeting illegal immigrants inside a medical facility or religious facility, despite concerns that the Trump administration would do so after the rollback of a Biden-era policy earlier this year.

Trump’s bill allocates about $170 billion for border and immigration enforcement, with $4.1 billion for CBP hiring that includes 3,000 more Border Patrol agents. It comes at a time of historically low crossings after they reached a record high in December 2023.

A father was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after dropping his child off at a Beaverton preschool Tuesday morning, officials said. According to an ICE spokesperson, 38-year-old Mahdi Khanbabazadeh was arrested outside Guidepost Montessori School in South Beaverton after dropping his child off at school.

Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk said in an op-ed published Thursday that her abrupt arrest and detention by immigration agents was “a narrative of human suffering.”