India, July 2 -- California and 19 others states have sued the Donald Trump administration over alleged violation of federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials last month.

Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr's advisors ordered the release of a dataset including the private health information of people in California, Illinois, Washington, and Washington to the Department of Homeland Security last month, AP news agency reported.

Those jurisdictions let noncitizens enroll in Medicaid programmes that pay for their expenses using only state taxpayer dollars.

"The Trump Administration has upended longstanding privacy protections with its decision to illegally share sensitive, per...