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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
2 months ago
- Rafael Concepcion, a Syracuse professor, was inspired by a grocery store owner's Facebook post offering free deliveries to immigrants hiding from ICE.
- He developed DEICER, a crowdsourced app to track ICE agent locations and alert users, aiming to help immigrants avoid arrest.
- DEICER was removed from Apple's App Store after the DOJ demanded takedown, citing risk to law enforcement officers.
- Concepcion faced personal setbacks: job loss at Syracuse University, financial strain, hacking of his projects, and death threats.
- Despite obstacles, he continues building similar tools (e.g., OJO Obrero for North Carolina) and providing direct aid to undocumented immigrants.
- His efforts highlight the technological asymmetry between ICE's advanced surveillance and grassroots resistance tools.
ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir
2 months ago
- ICE illegally accessed Medicaid data to locate migrants for deportation, without legal basis.
- ICE shared the unlawfully obtained data with Palantir, which used it in its ELITE app for deportation targeting.
- Palantir claimed the data was purged, but skepticism remains due to ongoing data sharing and compliance issues.
- Despite court orders, ICE continued to reshare data due to non-litigating states, allowing persistent violations.
- The Trump administration is expected to push for Supreme Court approval of unrestricted government data collection.
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
2 months ago
- ICE shared Medicaid data it improperly received from CMS with the data analytics firm Palantir, which operates the ELITE app used for deportation enforcement.
- The improper data sharing was revealed in a court filing by Democratic attorneys general suing the Trump administration over the data-sharing agreement between CMS and ICE.
- A federal judge had limited data sharing, but CMS violated the order by sharing data of millions, including U.S. citizens and legal immigrants, in January.
- ICE was ordered to delete the improperly shared data, but later discovered additional copies among six users; Palantir stated it purged the dataset per government instruction.
- The Department of Justice is seeking to expand the court order to allow ICE broader access to noncitizen data, while attorneys general argue ICE's inability to secure data undermines its request.
- Judge Chhabria warned that if the federal government cannot be careful with data, it cannot use it for deportation efforts.
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
2 months ago
- DHS plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for access to personal data including names, SSNs, ethnicity, social media posts, and geolocation.
- ICE will use this data to investigate voter fraud and immigration fraud, with continuous monitoring of millions of people.
- The announcement follows Trump's conspiracy-laden press conference on election security and a week in which ICE fatally shot two people.

Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life

ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It with Palantir

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud