The plan is the latest step by the Trump administration to gather sensitive information about people living in the U.S. as it seeks to crack down on illegal immigration.

ICE will use Medicaid data to "receive identity and location information on aliens," an agreement with the Health Department said.

An agreement signed this week grants Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to personal data for the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees. Making the data available to ICE — which includes home addresses,