"Per 404 Media's report, ELITE works by tapping Medicaid data to help the agency identify and arrest people for deportation, mapping potential targets and providing a "confidence score" as to an individual's current address. The tool, which builds on Palantir's long-running role as a core data infrastructure provider for immigration enforcement, underscores how health and benefits information that many Americans assume is walled off is increasingly being repurposed for surveillance and policing."
"Last year, ICE and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services signed a data-sharing agreement that would allow ICE to receive the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients. The agreement was first reported in July by the Associated Press, and documents were released earlier this month as a result of a lawsuit brought forth by 404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation against DHS."
Simmering tensions over ICE conduct intensified after a Border Patrol officer killed Alex Pretti, drawing widespread condemnation. ICE uses a Palantir-developed tracking tool called ELITE that ingests Medicaid and other government databases to build dossiers and generate leads on individuals believed deportable, mapping targets and assigning confidence scores for current addresses. Palantir and the Department of Homeland Security have a $30 million contract through 2027 to design an AI platform, ImmigrationOS, to track immigrant movements. ICE and CMS signed a data-sharing agreement allowing ICE access to personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients, and documents were released following a lawsuit by 404 Media and the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
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