According to CMS's security program documentation, Medicare and Medicaid are a covered entities under HIPAA, subject to 60 day notice to affected individuals, reporting to HHS OCR, and notice to media outlets when a breach affects more than 500 residents of a state.
Not to mention this violated a standing court order.
A country can allow, or disallow, entry by an alien at any time. A country can revoke permission for an alien to stay in that country at any time. The only entity it is responsible for answering to is its own laws and procedures (which the country may change at its discretion), and not the wishes/demands/pleas of said alien.
That they should not be in the US, does not override the need for the government to obey the law. But that also does not mean that the fundamental incoherence of a news article ignoring the issue of illegal aliens having access to government aid–of inherently assuming that "of course they should, bigot"—should be ignored.
This is a serious problem that nobody has figured out how to address. The complete lack of principles.
Police state against my enemies but not me and the good guys. It's all so tiresome.
I'm not the one you asked, but: Me, personally, I'd draw the line at the independence of the courts. If the courts are independent, if they can rule against the police for failure to prove their case or for procedural violations or whatever, then it's not a police state. If the police win the borderline cases (or worse, the clearly bogus cases) just because they're the police, then it's a police state.
Followup question:
Do you think public defenders are given adequate funding to ensure they can give proper defense to their clients?