Answer: Do you think ICE officials being allowed to access the nation’s Medicaid database is a violation of human rights?

For context, this is a question I answered on Quora

It violates U.S. constitutional rights specifically the 4th amendment ‘right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.’ In the 21st century “papers” include sensitive medical data about diagnostic and medical treatment history contained in the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System that HHS is giving ICE access too. Even if 1.4 million illegal aliens are supposedly enrolled in state medicaid programs the vast majority of medicaid recipients are still U.S. citizens who have a 4th amendment right to medical privacy under both the 4th amendment and HIPPA. The use of CMS ethnic data to target medicaid beneficiaries in this fishing expedition suggest ethnic discrimination against Hispanic beneficiaries will be the main course of action here which violates the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. I am by no means partial to Hispanic interests, but if your government is designed to be restricted by a set of long standing principles and you violate those principles for your goals you set the precedent for your enemy using the same amount of overreach, when they take power, in pursuit of their goals. DHS fusion centers and and inter-agency data-sharing mean not only will ICE have access to sensitive medical data, but so will other DHS agencies, other alphabet boys, as well as state and local police involved in Joint task forces. The CMS-ICE agreement, while specific to immigration, will be replicated for other agencies under similar vague justifications.