| The Trump administration’s assault on immigrant communities is being fueled by the tech company Palantir. 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), but the company has long claimed that its software isn’t used to aid in deportations.
They’re lying. New research from the advocacy group Mijente and emails obtained by WNYC show that the company's claims are false.
Palantir’s data-mining software has directly powered ICE’s accelerating workplace raids1 and has been used by ICE to investigate and arrest the parents and sponsors of children who crossed the border alone.2That’s right, Palantir is profiting from the separation of families and the caging of children.
The company is facing public backlash for its role in the horrendous human-rights abuses being committed against immigrant communities. And we need to keep the pressure on. Demand that Palantir stop aiding and abetting the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda. Tell the company to drop all contracts with ICE.
Together, we can force Palantir to stop working with ICE. Tech workers across the country have protested Palantir,3 academics have forced schools to drop their ties to the company, and journalists and activists around the world are decrying its connection to deportations.
Increased public pressure has already made it less profitable for Palantir to support ICE’s abuses.4 And immigrant-rights, racial-justice, and privacy-rights groups won’t let the company off the hook until it ends all contracts with ICE.
Let’s keep the pressure on: 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.
Thanks for all you do--
Lucia, Collette, Candace and the rest of the Free Press Action team
freepress.net
1. “Data Company Directly Powers Immigration Raids in Workplace,” WNYC, July 16, 2019: https://act.freepress.net/go/31319?t=8&akid=13083%2E10296224%2E8_kDA_ 2. “Documents Reveal Palantir Software Is Used for ICE Deportations,” Slate, May 2, 2019: https://act.freepress.net/go/31240?t=10&akid=13083%2E10296224%2E8_kDA_ 3. Tech Workers Protest Data Mining Firm Palantir for Role in Immigrant Arrests,” The Guardian, May 14, 2019: https://act.freepress.net/go/31320?t=12&akid=13083%2E10296224%2E8_kDA_ 4. “Palantir Has a $20 Billion Valuation and a Bigger Problem: It Keeps Losing Money,” The Wall Street Journal, November 12, 2018: https://act.freepress.net/go/31321?t=14&akid=13083%2E10296224%2E8_kDA_ |
