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How could a non citizen who came illegally be on Medicaid?

They cannot receive from federally funded Medicaid but some states have programs or state-funded Medicaid programs that allow non-citizens to benefit. CA and NY do for some categories. See this example for WI: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/medicaid/noncitizens.htm

These programs really support illegal immigrants? They support legal immigrants, for sure, but the question was about illegal immigrants?

The states that run these programs have political leadership that doesn't want to make a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants, and wants to give state -funded benefits to illegal immigrants, and so deliberately doesn't check citizenship or legal residency status when you apply for benefits.

It’s likely citizen children on Medicaid with potentially undocumented parents that they are targeting, which is pretty sad to think about.

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