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Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by cthalupa »

JuniperMesos wrote: post #544
cmorgan31 wrote: post #460

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Considering the AG demanded the voter rolls for MN to remove ICE it becomes obvious what game is being played. It’s a shame the USA is a terrible place.

If it was actually a terrible place the illegal immigrants would leave on their own volition and it wouldn't be necessary to have federal police find them and forcibly arrest and deport them.

The US can be both a terrible place and yet also better than other places that are more terrible.

I would like to hold my country to higher standards than "Eh, it's better than oppressive regimes where people get murdered for political dissent."

Unfortunately, the events we're seeing in MN may show that we're in danger of even that standard being too high for us.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by Der_Einzige »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #532
mindslight wrote: post #346

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> Schmidt is actually from OG Internet circles where many people were aware of privacy issues, and who were vigilant against incursions. > But perhaps he had a different philosophical position. Or perhaps it was his job to downplay the risks I feel that as the consumer surveillance industry took off, everyone from those OG Internet circles was presented with a choice - stick with the individualist hacker spirit, or t…

100% that is exactly what happened and in public Just invoking Richard Stallman will prove it because the smear campaign on him was so thorough. Linus seems to be the only one that made it out.

It would be nice if the top people in open source land weren't disheveled and looking like sterotypes. It's pretty easy to paint him as a predator.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by CuriouslyC »

wat10000 wrote: post #447
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> shows how many people care more about party than principle "Trump’s net approval rating on immigration has declined by about 4 points since the day before Good’s death until today. Meanwhile, his overall approval rating has declined by 2 points and is near its second-term lows" [1]. I'd encourage anyone watching to actually pay attention to "how many people care more about party than principle." I suspect it's fewe…

Two percent of Americans changing their opinion in the face of state sanctioned murder is not a good number.

The people who still support the orange troll live in an echo chamber where they've been sold the bullshit that quran waiving communist terrorists and the deep state are behind all of this, and it's a con job.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by godelski »

wat10000 wrote: post #447
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> shows how many people care more about party than principle "Trump’s net approval rating on immigration has declined by about 4 points since the day before Good’s death until today. Meanwhile, his overall approval rating has declined by 2 points and is near its second-term lows" [1]. I'd encourage anyone watching to actually pay attention to "how many people care more about party than principle." I suspect it's fewe…

Two percent of Americans changing their opinion in the face of state sanctioned murder is not a good number.

Multiple state sanctioned murder

Not to mention the extrajudicial killings

Not to mention the Epstein reports

I'm really not sure what people actually care about because for some reason they won't actually tell you

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by RHSeeger »

charcircuit wrote: post #371
RHSeeger wrote: post #354

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But there are people trying to hide their locations even though they are here legally; because ICE has made it very clear they don't care if you're here legally or not. They arrest and deport US citizens. They arrest and deport people that show up to court to become US citizens. It's clear the government cannot be trusted to use information in a reasonable way; so we should not allow them to get that information.

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> >They arrest and deport US citizens

> This is systematically not true as citizens can not be legally deported.

And yet

> The true scope of U.S. citizens wrongfully deported is not known as the federal government does not release data on how often members of this group are mistakenly detained or even removed from the country. However, The Washington Post estimated that there are at least 12 well-known cases, drawing conclusions from court records, interviews and news reports.

-- A Look At The U.S. Citizens Who Have Been Deported By The Trump Administration So Far

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-look-at-the-u-s-citizens...

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by Jun8 »

befeltingu wrote: post #550

How could a non citizen who came illegally be on Medicaid?

They cannot receive from federally funded Medicaid but some states have programs or state-funded Medicaid programs that allow non-citizens to benefit. CA and NY do for some categories. See this example for WI: https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/medicaid/noncitizens.htm

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #602
AndrewKemendo wrote: post #532

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100% that is exactly what happened and in public Just invoking Richard Stallman will prove it because the smear campaign on him was so thorough. Linus seems to be the only one that made it out.

It would be nice if the top people in open source land weren't disheveled and looking like sterotypes. It's pretty easy to paint him as a predator.

How is not just straight up bigotry? You’re unambiguously saying that his appearance is the relevant factor in his ideas

You’re doing literally what I described

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by refurb »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #276
refurb wrote: post #243

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That logic doesn't hold up. Legal immigration - as is today - is about 1% of the US population. That's pretty standard, and would result in an slowly increasing population. But regardless, saying "we need immigrants" then jumping to "illegal or not" is not a logical argument. We absolutely can have a system that prevent illegal immigration, while carefully screening legal immigrants. Heck, every country in the world…

Can, if we had a functioning Congress that actually passed material laws. We’ve been trying to pass immigration reform for the last couple of decades.

Changing laws is irrelevant if the executive chooses to ignore them.

It would be better to actually enforce the immigration laws we have right now, and see where we land. Then make changes from there.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by guerrilla »

AlotOfReading wrote: post #570
nullocator wrote: post #377

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Are you a citizen, can you prove it at the polling station? I am doubtful you are, and your documents if you have them don't seem legit enough, so I think we'll set your vote aside, or possibly prevent it from being cast; we can't be too sure!

It doesn't matter whether you can prove it. ICE's current position [0] is that their face scanning app supercedes documents like birth certificates to determine status. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ices-forced-face...

Well that's insane. I hadn't heard that.

Re: ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

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Post by rngfnby »

LightBug1 wrote: post #270
rngfnby wrote: post #125

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But why are we under the replacement rate? Seems relevant

Considering at least a third of potential replacement partners are Trump voters, can you imagine women feeling sexy about them? LOL

I'd be surprised if the elections of '16 and '24 even register as a blip in demographic data.
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