ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data

242•JKCalhoun•1h ago

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simonw•1h ago

Any time I see people say "I don't see why I should care about my privacy, I've got nothing to hide" I think about how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power.

The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

This ICE stuff is that scaled up to a multi-billion dollar federal agency with, apparently, no accountability for following the law at all.

jfyi•57m ago

It doesn't even need malicious intent. If nobody rational is monitoring it, all it will take is a bad datapoint or hallucination for your door to get kicked in by mistake.

Jaepa•33m ago

Plus there is inherent biases in datasets. Folks who have interactions with Medicaid will be more vulnerable by definition.

To quote the standard observability conference line "what gets measured gets managed".

plagiarist•56m ago

The same people saying that will also defend police wearing masks, hiding badges, and shutting off body cameras. They are not participating in discussions with the same values (truth, integrity) that you have. Logic does not work on people who believe Calvinistic predestination is the right model for society.

j16sdiz•50m ago

Wait. Is calvinistic predestination the majority view of republicans? I thought most of them are some form of (tv) evangelism, or secularism

I am not American and genuinely curious on this.

ungreased0675•45m ago

No, none of that is true.

Remember, Republicans represent half the country, not some isolated sect living in small town Appalachia.

tfehring•34m ago

27%* https://news.gallup.com/poll/700499/new-high-identify-politi...

jfyi•32m ago

>some isolated sect living in small town Appalachia.

Calvinists or Evangelicals?

I don't think that holds water either way.

helterskelter•27m ago

> Republicans represent half the country

This statement isn't necessarily wrong because about half of elected government officials are Republican, but I want to point out that less than 60% of eligible Americans voted in 2024, so we're talking about <30% of Americans who vote Republican.

gritspants•38m ago

I don't believe there is any sort of conservative intellectual movement at this point. The right believes they have captured certain institutions (law enforcement, military), in the same way they believe the left has captured others (education/universities, media), and will use them to wage war against whichever group the big finger pointing men in charge tell them to.

gunsle•9m ago

What a dumb comment. You genuinely think there’s no intellectuals or intellectual movement on the right? Good lord this site is as bad as Reddit these days

efnx•34m ago

Republicans are overwhelmingly Christian, and even though Calvinism, or its branches, may not be the religion a majority of Republicans “exercise”, predetermination is a convenient explanation of why the world is what it is, and why no action should be taken - so it gets used a lot by right wing media, etc.

steveklabnik•28m ago

A lot of American Christians aren't hyper committed to the specific theology of whichever flavor of Christianity they belong to, and will often sort of mix and match their own personal beliefs with what is orthodoxy.

That said, I'm ex-Catholic, so I don't feel super qualified to make a statement on the specific popularity of predestination among American evangelicals at the moment.

That said, in a less theological and more metaphorical sense, it does seem that many of them do believe in some sort of "good people" and "bad people", where the "bad people" are not particularly redeemable. It feels a little unfalsifiable though.

alwa•27m ago

Some, probably; not all (and certainly not the current president, who in his more senile moments muses about how his works have probably earned him hell [0]).

But the same observation applies to lots of other attitudes, too—like “might makes right” and “nature is red in tooth and claw” or whatever the dark princelings evince these days. I feel like “logic matters” mainly pertains to a liberal-enlightenment political context that might be in the past now…

https://time.com/7311354/donald-trump-heaven-hell-afterlife-...

mythrwy•26m ago

It's something they say in sociology 101 at colleges in the US and some people occasionally believe it.

JumpCrisscross•29m ago

Anyone on the right who implicates Pretti for carrying a licensed firearm is a good litmus test for bad faith.

godelski•21m ago

It's amazing how quickly the party of small government, states rights, and the 2nd amendment quickly turned against all their principles. It really shows how many people care more about party than principle.

ck_one•50m ago

This is the moment for Europe to show that you can do gov and business differently. If they get their s** together and actually present a viable alternative.

skrebbel•44m ago

How is it not viable now?

alecco•38m ago

They are doing it differently alright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_control

Jordan-117•38m ago

"Best I can do is Chat Control 3.0"

direwolf20•28m ago

Europe can't do business differently. Or at least it doesn't seem to be able to. China can.

nathan_compton•13m ago

Last I checked millions of europeans are living in a functioning civilization. I've lived in Europe. It is ok.

Don't confuse "GDP not as big as ours" with "totally non-functional."

p1esk•6m ago

China can

Yes, things are different in totalitarian states.

koolba•48m ago

> The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

There’s a world of difference between a government using legally collected data for multiple purposes and an individual abusing their position purely for personal reasons.

sosomoxie•43m ago

The parent's example is of an individual using that "legal" state collected data for nefarious purposes. Once it's collected, anyone who accesses it is a threat vector. Also, governments (including/especially the US) have historically killed, imprisoned and tortured millions and millions of people. There's nothing to be gained by an individual for allowing government access to their data.

simonw•39m ago

That difference is looking very thin right now.

Jaepa•38m ago

Is this legal though?

& effectively if there is no checks on this is there actually a difference? There only difference is that the threat is to an entire cohort rather than an individual.

monooso•29m ago

At this moment, the primary difference appears to be scale.

godelski•28m ago

When did legality make something right?

The whole social battle is a constant attempt to align our laws and values as a society. It's why we create new laws. It's why we overturn old laws. You can't just abdicate your morals and let the law decide for you. That's not a system of democracy, that's a system of tyranny.

The privacy focused crowd often mentions "turnkey tyranny" as a major motivation. A tyrant who comes to power and changes the laws. A tyrant who comes to power and uses the existing tooling beyond what that tooling was ever intended for.

The law isn't what makes something right or wrong. I can't tell you what is, you'll have to use your brain and heart to figure that one out.

blurbleblurble•40m ago

Respect, thank you for using your voice.

steve1977•33m ago

Also always keep in mind that what is legal today might be illegal tomorrow. This includes things like your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation and much more.

You don't know today on which side of legality you will be in 10 years, even if your intentions are harmless.

direwolf20•28m ago

The reaction from the masses: "But that isn't true today, anything could happen in the future, and why should I invest so much work on something that's only a possibility?"

whatshisface•4m ago

People do not have justifications for most choices. We watch YouTube when we would benefit more from teaching ourselves skills. We eat too much of food we know is junk. We stay up too late and either let others walk over us at work to avoid overt conflict or start fights and make enemies to protect our own emotions. If you want to know why Americans are allowing themselves to be gradually reduced to slavery, do not ask why.

p1esk•15m ago

Privacy itself can become illegal just as easily as religion, etc. if we follow your argument.

WrongOnInternet•27m ago

"I've got nothing to hide" is another way of saying "I don't have friends that trust me," which is another way of saying" I don't have friends."

AndrewKemendo•25m ago

> how badly things can go if the wrong people end up in positions of power

This is why there shouldn’t be any organization that has that much power.

Full stop.

What you described is the whole raison dêtre of Anarchism; irrespective of whether you think there’s an alternative or not*

“No gods No Masters” isn’t just a slogan it’s a demand

*my personal view is that there is no possible stable human organization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism#No_gods,_n...

wahnfrieden•13m ago

Have you read Graeber & Wengrow?

hypeatei•20m ago

The simple response to that line of thinking is: "you don't choose what the government uses against you"

For any piece of data that exists, the government effectively has access to it through court orders or backdoors. Either way, it can and will be used against you.

sheikhnbake•11m ago

The true problem is that it happens no matter who is in charge. It's like that old phrase about weapons that are invented are going to be used at some point. The same thing has turned out to be true for intelligence tools. And the worst part is that the tools have become so capable, that malicious intent isn't even required anymore for privacy to be infringed.

SkyPuncher•9m ago

For me, the angle is a bit different. I want privacy, but I also sense that the people who are really good at this (like Plantir) have so much proxy information available that individual steps to protect privacy are pretty much worthless.

To me, this is a problem that can only be solved at the government/regulatory level.

thangalin•8m ago

> I've got nothing to hide.

Some retorts for people swayed by that argument:

"Can we put a camera in your bathroom?"

"Let's send your mom all your text messages."

"Ain't nothin' in my pockets, but I'd rather you didn't check."

"Shall we live-stream your next doctor's appointment?"

"May I watch you enter your PIN at the ATM?"

"How about you post your credit card number on reddit?"

"Care to read your high-school diary on open mic night?"

RcouF1uZ4gsC•7m ago

Are you against income tax?

Are you against business registration?

All of these are subject to the similar issues with the stalker ex abusing a position of power?

tw04•5m ago

> The classic example here is what happens when someone is being stalked by an abusive ex-partner who works in law enforcement and has access to those databases.

Which has literally happened already for anyone who thinks “there’s controls in place for that sort of thing”. That’s with (generally) good faith actors in power. What do you think can and will happen when people who think democracy and the constitution are unnecessary end up in control…

https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/

rcpt•1h ago

Wishful thinking but it would be real great if a future leader destroyed this infrastructure.

I'm sure they'll run on not using it but when systems like this exist they tend to find applications

acc_297•52m ago

Wishful thinking but it would be real great if an engineer poisoned these datasets with bait entries

Analemma_•48m ago

It’s not gonna happen. The people who work at Palantir, if they’re not just there for the money, think they’re doing the right thing, they see themselves as keeping the country safe and improving government efficiency (and who could be against that?)

mikelitoris•29m ago

Nobody thinks that. They are there for money.

direwolf20•25m ago

Even Peter Thiel?

kakacik•15m ago

Especially Peter Thiel. Now we are not saying he doesn't internally agree with many things that are happening (I don't mean this specific topic but rather overall direction of US society), we know he does.

gunsle•6m ago

That’s just not true. There are plenty of people in defense tech that clearly believe they are doing the right thing. Same with those in the military. Their version of “right” is just different than yours. To them, ensuring American hegemony is more right than whatever your definition is.

loeg•58m ago

Why would Medicaid have the data of anyone who is at risk of immigration enforcement? The reported connection seems tenuous:

> The tool – dubbed Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) – receives peoples’ addresses from the Department of Health and Human Services (which includes Medicaid) and other sources, 404 Media reports based on court testimony in Oregon by law enforcement agents, among other sources.

So, they have a tool that sucks up data from a bunch of different sources, including Medicaid. But there's no actual nexus between Medicaid and illegal immigrants in this reporting.

Edit: In the link to their earlier filings, EFF claims that some states enroll illegal immigrants in Medicaid: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-court-protect-our-...

wahnfrieden•55m ago

They are targeting a variety of people beyond legal immigration status. Immigration status is the public-facing pretext for their power and operations.

nxm•49m ago

Do explain

lawn•38m ago

Darker skin, trans, gays, and opposition to them are all valid targets.

sambull•12m ago

“If it was up to Stephen [Miller], there would only be 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like him.”

To accomplish things like that, a lot of us are going to be removed. I don't think these are jokes, it's a pattern of statements to condition and normalize. A thing he has done over and over.

odie5533•53m ago

Medicaid-receiving immigrants could have their immigration status change, legal violations, emergency medicaid use, sometimes there's state funded coverage that immigrants are offered, etc. There's lots of reasons where Medicaid will have information on immigrants.

nemomarx•52m ago

Do you actually think ICE cares about your legal citizenship status?

dashundchen•47m ago

ICE has been harassing and following legal observers to their houses. They've shot and executed at least two people who were exercising their legal right to record their activity.

The FBI has been showing up at the door of some people who dare to organize protests against ICE.

Stingrays have been deployed to protests, ICE is collecting photos of protestors for their database, and has been querying YCombinator funded Flock to pull automated license plate camera data from around the country. Trump, Vance, Noem and Miller are calling anyone who protests them domestic terrorists.

It's pretty clear this isn't just about immigration, that this is about pooling data for a surveillance state that can quash the constitutional rights of anyone who dares to oppose the current regime. We've seen this story before.

kakacik•18m ago

When your whole system works by giving absolutely ridiculous amount of power to a single individual who has nobody above or at least on the side capable of interfering and changing things, this is what you eventually get. Crossing fingers and praying given person isn't a complete psycho or worse is not going to cut it forever, is it. Especially when >50% of population welcomes such person with open arms, knowing well who is coming.

Given what kind of garbage from human gene pool gets and thrives in high politics its more surprising the show lasted as long as it did.

Now the question shouldn't be 'how much outraged we should be' since we get this situation for a year at this point, but rather what to do next, how we can shape future to avoid this. If there will be the time for such correction, which is a huge IF.

mindslight•11m ago

I don't disagree with where you're coming from. But to be fair, our system did have separation of powers and legal accountability for most of the time it was accruing so much power. The fascists just managed to get enough of the Supreme Council on board to sweep this away under the guises of unitary executive theory and blanket immunity for the new president-king.

gunsle•8m ago

Probably because states like mine (Minnesota) and cities like NYC love to vote for free healthcare to illegal immigrants and recent immigrants despite clearly not having the budget for it.

noitpmeder•57m ago

This current administration and their policies have definitely influenced my opinion on the 2018 debate around citizenship questions on the US census.

(For more context: https://www.tbf.org/blog/2018/march/understanding-the-census...)

eoskx•52m ago

Glad to see this post didn't get flagged like the one that was posted yesterday on a similar topic about ICE data mining and user tracking.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748336

therobots927•49m ago

Give it a few minutes

taurath•31m ago

It likely will. There’s major impact on literally everyone in tech, there’s huge data privacy concerns, and it has less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery. The US gov could fall but that would count as politics here so clearly irrelevant.

andy99•25m ago

> less coverage or discussion than a new version of jQuery

Pretty sure this is a feature not a bug. Most people aren’t here for political topics.

therobots927•14m ago

Yep. They’re here to bury their head in the sand and keep up to date with the latest tech trends like the good little worker bees they are.

watty•7m ago

I don't think that's fair. I follow politics closely but prefer HN to stay technical. It shouldn't be offensive.

HumblyTossed•11m ago

They should be aware of how tech is being used in political games though...

taurath•5m ago

It gets down to the definition of political which is basically anything that might have a human cost, including to the people here. I have many coworkers having to upend their lives, some can’t currently leave the country. This is not worthy of discussion, but an esoteric library update is. Paul Graham posts are not political topics for some reason, but H1B people is.

Technology, technology leaders, and technology companies are literally driving politics, buying elections, driving the whole US economy.

Saying what “political” topics are IS political - and it’s decidedly a right wing position. Only those with the powers protecting them get to avoid politics.

alex1138•31m ago

Damn near everything on HN gets flagged eventually. Either get everyone to drop their biases as Silicon Valley tech VCs or make it so that flags can ONLY be used to remove clear abuse. Sick of it

billy99k•45m ago

I'm waiting to hear about the alternatives, which still involve deporting illegal immigrants. It seems the people against ICE, don't want illegal immigrants deported at all.

sosomoxie•41m ago

Yeah I'm against ICE and I don't want any immigrants deported.

gruez•26m ago

/s?

Otherwise you're proving his point, which is that there's no middle ground, only "ICE raids terrorizing people" and "sanctuary cities/states where local governments refuse to do any sort of immigration enforcement and specifically turn a blind eye to immigration status".

direwolf20•24m ago

What actual, concrete benefit do you see from deporting immigrants?

gruez•8m ago

>you see from deporting immigrants?

Nice job sneakily changing "immigration enforcement" to "deporting immigrants".

sosomoxie•18m ago

Yes, well I don't think we should deport people and I think immigrants improve the US, so I would be in the latter category. He's "waiting to hear of alternatives that don't involve deporting illegal immigrants", and I have one: don't deport anyone.

gruez•5m ago

>Yes, well I don't think we should deport people and I think immigrants improve the US, so I would be in the latter category

Which would put you in the minority (16%).

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/03/26/am...

Even without getting into a debate of whether we should do immigration enforcement at all (a sibling reply goes into it in better detail), there's the practical effect that most people do, and if Democrats don't oblige, people like Trump will get in power instead.

jfyi•15m ago

It's a false dilemma either way. "You are with ICE or you are pro-illegal immigration".

...and that's best case scenario, giving the benefit of the doubt.

PlanksVariable•13m ago

Why? Deportation is a reasonable response when a person violates a country’s immigration laws. That is the standard around the world.

Alternatively, you have an essentially open border, which obviously can lead to unmanageable waves of immigration that strain a country’s housing, healthcare, schools, welfare, and other resources, among other effects.

Disruption to peoples’ lives happens when we have administrations who arbitrarily decide not to enforce the immigration law (e.g. the previous administration). It sends mixed signals to potential immigrants, and leads to the outcomes we have today when we decide to resume enforcing our laws.

sosomoxie•3m ago

> obviously can lead to unmanageable waves of immigration that strain a country’s housing, healthcare, schools, welfare, and other resources, among other effects.

I don't agree that this is "obvious". Immigrants bring important social and cultural capital. Who do you think is building a lot of the infrastructure in the US? The people putting a strain on the system are actually the aging baby boomer generation.

I have many other reasons for supporting open immigration that are less transactional, but the suggestions that immigrants "strain" our infrastructure is incorrect.

bigyabai•40m ago

For me, it's the summary execution of US citizens that gives me pause.

mindslight•37m ago

Who needs to care about the Constitution, Individual Liberty, or limited government when there are iMmIgrAnTs around?!

It's like these people never got past their childhood phase worrying about the monster in the closet. In fact I do have to wonder how much of the non-Boomer+ support for this regime is just from naive kids who have zero life experience.

codyb•14m ago

Tons of young people either voted for Trump or didn't vote at all this time around.

Undoubtedly influenced by social media, they're now realizing that what they voted for was their own future's destruction and are now abandoning him in droves.

We'll see if it's too late or not.

Delete your social media, shit is poison.

mkoubaa•26m ago

Exactly.

thunderfork•38m ago

Forced movement is cringe, actually

lawn•36m ago

You're wrong, simple as that.

therobots927•35m ago

You’re right. We should throw away the constitution so we can deport.. (checks notes) 600,000 undocumented immigrants, only 5% of which have committed a violent crime.

tinyhouse•29m ago

I don't have a horse in this race, but I do have a question. If you don't deport illegal immigrants, why not just open the border to everyone to come in? (let's ignore criminal records, etc for this exercise). What's the point of not letting people in but then if they manage to come in illegally, assume it's all good and they can stay?

direwolf20•24m ago

That's the question, isn't it? Why not just do that? Who are you trying to keep out of the country, and for what end, and is that end best attained by removing people from the country who aren't the ones you are trying to keep out?

For instance, if you believe the border should be strict to keep out serial killers, what does that have to do with removing Korean car factory workers who aren't serial killers?

tinyhouse•12m ago

Well, if a Korean car factory worker live and work illegally in the country, then it makes total sense to remove them, regardless if they are serial killers or not. A company shouldn't even hire anyone who is not eligible to work legally in the country. There are laws that need to be followed like everything else.

It sounds like you're saying that you want the country to have open borders so that everyone can come live and work here given they pass some basic checks (no criminal history for example). I am not saying that is wrong, but that's not how pretty much every country in the world operates.

blell•3m ago

Because once they come in sufficient numbers they will turn your country into the country they fled from - and then you are in trouble.

mindslight•19m ago

Buying into the framework that any of this is about illegal immigrants is a red herring. Immigration is merely a pretext for enabling an unaccountable fascist police state using big data from the consumer surveillance industry to both keep enough people believing the regime's abject reality-insulting lies (the carrot), while extralegally punishing anybody who might be too effective at speaking out (the stick).

DrSAR•3m ago

No horse either but here is an attempt (ignoring criminal record as you say): Opening the border and letting her rip is clearly not sustainable in the medium term. So you try to make it (reasonably) hard to get in incl. turning people away at the border.

Once they are in (incl illegally so) you concede you have lost on this instance. Now you admit that forcefully removing immigrants carries too high a cost (literally + damage in the communities you remove the immigrants from + your humanitarian image). So you don't.

Somehow that balance seems really hard to get right and edge cases (criminal record) matter.

10xDev•26m ago

I mean, I don't like CCP tech or public executions of disarmed citizens but saying only 5% is a bit nuts.

direwolf20•24m ago

What percentage of illegal immigrants have committed violent crimes?

therobots927•17m ago

The stats are pretty clear. Based on DHS own numbers

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/number-deported-im...

jfyi•4m ago

[delayed]

paulryanrogers•3m ago

Another way to look at it: the native born are twice as likely to be arrested for violence and drug crimes.

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU01/20250122/117827/HHRG...

mindslight•34m ago

And as you're waiting with closed eyes, plugged ears, and a mind gummed up with simplistic fascist nonsense, you're going to be waiting for a loooooong time.

trentearl•32m ago

The alternative is better trained officers with more accountability.

ceejayoz•24m ago

You can’t fix this by giving them more money for training. This is how they’re trained to act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Grossman_(author)

steveklabnik•23m ago

Bovino says "the officer [who killed Pretti] has extensive training as a range safety officer and less lethal officer,” and had served for eight years.

halfmatthalfcat•25m ago

The US cannot afford, demographically, to curtail immigration, illegal or otherwise. Simple fact is the US needs more people because we’re under the replacement rate.

rngfnby•4m ago

But why are we under the replacement rate? Seems relevant

yks•24m ago

How about this: no masks, no weapons (if they feel they are in danger they can call the cops who already have more weapons than they possibly need). Every time a citizen is detained in jail, detaining agent and their manager lose their paycheck for that period. Family with kids jailed and separated? No paycheck. You know, do it in the Christian compassionate way, not in the shooting single moms way.

paulryanrogers•15m ago

Most of these people didn't protest ICE under Biden and Obama, who both deported more than Trump 1. That's because we see a difference in how illegal migrants were prioritized (violent offenders first) and treated (more humanely) then compared to now. And how citizen protests were handled then and now.

asveikau•6m ago

They sold us on a lie about the extent of the illegal immigrant "problem". It's numerically impossible to make the promises they made and not deport people who it's hard to argue should be deported.

Immigrants also commit crimes at fewer rates than US born people and crime is at all time lows. Yet they sold us for years on a crime moral panic and phantom "migrant crime".

So you said, propose a solution that also involves deporting people, and I will say NO. You are wanting to target a mostly fake problem.

belter•43m ago

"ICE Budget Now Bigger Than Most of the World’s Militaries" - https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-ice-bill-trump-2093456

smitty1e•39m ago

I hope that we can agree that blowing off the 10A and allowing all of this federal bloat has not been a swift call.

Social services left at the State level would be subject to a smaller pool of votes for approval and are more likely to be funded by actual tax revenue instead of debt.

That is: sustainably.

Furthermore, the lack of One True Database is a safety feature in the face of the inevitable bad actors.

In naval architecture, this is called compartmentalization.

There are good arguments against this, sure, but the current disaster before you would seem a refutation.

paulryanrogers•19m ago

Some states are too poor to effectively fund and maintain their own safety nets. It's common for folks laid off in these states to get a dubious mental health diagnosis to justify SSDI, because doctors know they have no prospects and could well become homeless without it.

mkoubaa•25m ago

And I used to roll my eyes at the homeless guy who ranted about the mark of the beast

rconti•20m ago

... but I'm sure they'd never target "undesirably unhealthy" citizens with this data to harass.....

If you work on this kind of tech, please, quit your job.

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