By The Numbers — Federal Data Fusion
ICE Just Needs Palantir and a Login
Treat this as an infrastructure story, not a scandal story: map the data-sharing agreements and vendor contracts that made this technically trivial, tracing the precondition rather than the single incident.
Immigration agents can search your health records on a two-month pass they can renew forever. Citizens wait seven weeks just to ask for their own records—and have a one in ten chance of actually getting them.
ENTRIES006
SOURCES006
MARKETS002
POLLS002
One-Way Mirror
002
Number of states suing to stop deportation agents from pulling Medicaid records
22
Their Speed, Your Wait
003
How long deportation agents get to search Medicaid records — renewable forever
Source: KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation)
2months
004
Average wait for a Freedom of Information Act requisition to be processed
48.96days
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Readers & Markets
What happens next, in numbers.
2 open markets tied to this story, with $59K in volume on the line — and 2 polls measuring where opinion sits. Prices and vote shares update in real time.
Open Markets
02 contracts
Will DOGE/Trump manage to shut down at least 100 Federal agencies by 2029?
Source: Manifold
Yes10¢
No90¢
Will the Republican Party win a majority in the United States House of Representatives in the 2026 general election?
Source: ForecastTrader
Yes35¢
No65¢
Reader Polls
02 surveys
ICE's Actions in Enforcing Immigration Laws Have Gone Too Far, Not Gone Far Enough, or Are About Right
Source: NPR/PBS News/Marist Poll
Gone Too Far
65%
About Right
22%
Not Gone Far Enough
12%
Is It Acceptable for People to Record Video of Immigration Officers While They Make Arrests?
Source: Pew Research Center
Support
74%
Oppose
25%