Federal immigration officials plan to use the nation's Medicaid database to "receive identity and location information on aliens."

The personal health information of 79 million people will soon be in the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, who will use the data trove to track down immigrants in the United States illegally.

A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.