| Palantir is a tech company that’s fueling the Trump administration’s deportation machine. Tell Palantir to get on the right side of history and end its relationship with ICE.
Friend,
Palantir has multimillion-dollar contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that aid in the horrendous human-rights abuses like family separations and deportations happening at the border right now.
Earlier this year, documents released under a Freedom of Information Act request showed that ICE used a software Palantir created and sold to investigate and arrest the parents and sponsors of children who crossed the border alone.1
According to these documents, when unaccompanied minors were taken into ICE custody, agents used Palantir software to build profiles of these children and their families, arresting any undocumented people they discovered in their investigations, including those who came forward to claim their children. Thanks to this software, ICE arrested at least 443 people during a three-month period.2
These investigations are a gross overreach that violate basic human rights, Fourth Amendment privacy rights, and the internationally recognized right to seek asylum.
Demand that Palantir stop aiding and abetting the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Tell the company to drop all contracts with ICE.
Palantir’s software is also used extensively by Homeland Security Investigations, the ICE division responsible for workplace raids. Through Palantir contracts, ICE also has access to a nationwide license-plate location database, which it uses to track and conduct surveillance of individuals and family members in order to arrest and deport immigrants.
Because of Palantir, all this information is at the fingertips of ICE agents responsible for mass deportations and other abuses.
Send a message to Palantir — and the entire tech industry — that we will not stand by and let them make money off of the trauma and suffering of migrants and asylum seekers.
We can force Palantir to stop working with ICE. With increased public pressure, it will become less profitable for the company to continue supporting ICE abuses. And the pressure is already working — academics have forced schools to drop their ties to Palantir, and journalists and activists around the world are decrying the company’s connection to deportations.
Thanks for all you do,
Lucia, Collette, Candace and the rest of the Free Press Action team
freepress.net
P.S. Thanks to technology provided by the company Palantir, ICE is able to scale up and accelerate its operations and monitor and track people like never before. Tell the tech company to end its contracts with ICE and stop terrorizing immigrant communities!
1. “Documents Detail ICE Campaigns to Prosecute Migrant Parents as Smugglers,” The Intercept, April 29, 2019: https://act.freepress.net/go/31239?t=9&akid=13026%2E10296224%2Et_g1zN 2. “Documents Reveal Palantir Software Is Used for ICE Deportations,” Slate, May 2, 2019: https://act.freepress.net/go/31240?t=11&akid=13026%2E10296224%2Et_g1zN  |
