The Trump administration is pressuring the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to hand over immigrants’ personal information as the Department of Government Efficiency steps up President Donald Trump’s deportation efforts.

Officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and DOGE, led unofficially by X CEO Elon Musk, asked CMS in the past month to provide access to data systems that include home addresses and the health information of those enrolled in Medicare, the Washington Post reported Wednesday evening.

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CMS had not yet granted the request of the two federal entities as of early April.

Medicare, a federal health insurance program for adults over 65, is not available to illegal immigrants, but DOGE has spent the early months of Trump’s second term trying to identify illegal immigrants, some of whom live in mixed-status households, for deportation.

DOGE is seeking to check recipients’ Social Security numbers against the CMS database to see if they attempted to file claims and provided a home address.

Social Security numbers are issued at the time work authorization documents are given to immigrants who are paroled into the country. Trump declared his intention not to renew legal status for parolees admitted during the Biden administration, forcing roughly half a million immigrants to leave the country or go into hiding.

Trump has maintained since taking office that illegal immigrants are using Medicare and Social Security, though they are not eligible for either benefit.

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Earlier this month, the White House forced the Social Security Administration to list 6,000 living immigrants found in the program as dead so that they would no longer be eligible for benefits and might leave the country. DOGE’s efforts to gain access to IRS data for immigration enforcement also contributed to an exodus of senior leaders from the agency.

On Tuesday, Trump took executive action aimed at cracking down on Social Security fraud. The White House emphasized its efforts to prevent illegal immigrants from incorrectly receiving benefits.