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Ice given access to Medicaid data in move critics call a privacy betrayal
Officials let Ice access health data to locate migrants, alarming experts who warn of civil rights and health risks
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"This is about the weaponization of data, full stop," said Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic US representative from Washington state, who has worked extensively on US healthcare, in a statement on social media.

"Trump said he would go after the worst of the worst' immigrants, yet now is giving ICE EVERYONE's Medicaid data, even as ICE targets US citizens. Oh, and undocumented immigrants can't even enroll in Medicaid."

Under the strict definition of rape in NY state at the time, Trump could not be found to have raped Carroll:

Dismissing the counterclaim, Judge Kaplan provided an unsparing ----ysis of the legal issues that informed the New York verdict. He wrote: "The only issue on which the jury did not find in Ms Carroll's favour was whether she proved that Mr Trump raped' her within the narrow, technical meaning of that term in the New York penal law.

"The jury-- was instructed that it could find that Mr Trump raped' Ms Carroll only if it found that he forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll's vagina with his penis.

"It could not find that he raped' her if it determined that Mr Trump forcibly penetrated Ms Carroll's private sexual parts with his fingers--which commonly is considered rape' in other contexts--because the New York penal law definition of rape is limited to penile penetration."

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However, NY state law has since been changed:

The state's current limited definition was a factor in writer E. Jean Carroll's sexual abuse and defamation case against former President Donald Trump. The jury in the federal civil trial rejected the writer's claim last May that Trump had raped her in the 1990s, instead finding the former president responsible for a lesser degree of sexual abuse.

The current law defines rape as ------- penetration by a penis. The new law broadens the definition to include nonconsensual ----, oral, and ------- sexual contact. Highlighting Carroll's case at a bill signing ceremony in Albany, the Democratic governor said the new definition will make it easier for rape victims to bring cases forward to prosecute perpetrators. The law will apply to sexual assaults committed on or after Sept. 1.

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So now if you penetrate someone with your fingers, a corn cob or a plunger, it will be considered to be rape in NY state.

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