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1/ I've worked in tech policy for a decade. In most rooms, I'm usually the only Latino - almost always the only Latinx immigrant.
If you care about immigrants or Latinx people, if you care about kids, I need you to care about Palantir's IPO next Tuesday. https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/palantir-ice-deportation-immigrant-surveillance-big-data.html
If you care about immigrants or Latinx people, if you care about kids, I need you to care about Palantir's IPO next Tuesday. https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/palantir-ice-deportation-immigrant-surveillance-big-data.html
2/ Palantir wrote the final layer of code facilitating countless deportations - and Trump's first systematic family separations.
When confronted, Palantir's CEO has made demonstrably false denials. He has lied.
Their stock goes on sale Tuesday as if none of this had happened.
When confronted, Palantir's CEO has made demonstrably false denials. He has lied.
Their stock goes on sale Tuesday as if none of this had happened.
3/ A teen arrives alone at the border after traveling 2,000 miles to escape a violent uncle. Feds ask his brother to take him in.
The brother asks: If I say yes, will ICE come for me? They say no.
7 months later, ICE shows up at his house and arrests him https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/ice-arrests-young-immigrant-s-sponsor-months-after-feds-assured-him-he-d-be-safe/article_428366f5-6d03-552c-a277-93b83d3005e2.html
The brother asks: If I say yes, will ICE come for me? They say no.
7 months later, ICE shows up at his house and arrests him https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/ice-arrests-young-immigrant-s-sponsor-months-after-feds-assured-him-he-d-be-safe/article_428366f5-6d03-552c-a277-93b83d3005e2.html
4/ A young family gets a knock at their door. A child answers. As the kids watch, ICE agents come in and arrest their dad.
He's been here decades. Clean record. How'd they find him? From the license he'd just got at the DMV.
See her testify (@ 1:42:35): http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Committees/Media/false?cmte=jpr&ys=2020RS&clip=JPR_2_27_2020_meeting_1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmgahouse.maryland.gov%2Fmga%2Fplay%2Fb9a1d39c-c228-4b91-8b47-fd4fbe268039%2F%3Fcatalog%2F03e481c7-8a42-4438-a7da-93ff74bdaa4c%26playfrom%3D3462175
He's been here decades. Clean record. How'd they find him? From the license he'd just got at the DMV.
See her testify (@ 1:42:35): http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Committees/Media/false?cmte=jpr&ys=2020RS&clip=JPR_2_27_2020_meeting_1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmgahouse.maryland.gov%2Fmga%2Fplay%2Fb9a1d39c-c228-4b91-8b47-fd4fbe268039%2F%3Fcatalog%2F03e481c7-8a42-4438-a7da-93ff74bdaa4c%26playfrom%3D3462175
5/ Who wrote the code helping agents use data from a scared, detained kid to help ICE deport their sponsor?
Palantir.
Take ICE’s word for it. Ctrl+F for “ICM” (Palantir’s case management software) in this doc obtained by @Mijente. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5980596-Smuggling-Initiative-ConOP.html
Palantir.
Take ICE’s word for it. Ctrl+F for “ICM” (Palantir’s case management software) in this doc obtained by @Mijente. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5980596-Smuggling-Initiative-ConOP.html
6/ Who built a portal for agents to conveniently access driver’s license data networks?
Palantir.
Again, don’t take my word for it. Read ICE’s own documentation of Palantir software. Pages 17-18 here ("Nlets"): https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf
Palantir.
Again, don’t take my word for it. Read ICE’s own documentation of Palantir software. Pages 17-18 here ("Nlets"): https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf
7/ Alex Karp has called Palantir’s work for ICE “limited” and a “de minimis part of our work.”
Ah - strange thing for the CEO of an imminently public company to say about their *second largest U.S. government client* in FY19 & FY18: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/8faa3bf8-d9e9-fec1-9195-f9000c98e8ec-P/2019
Ah - strange thing for the CEO of an imminently public company to say about their *second largest U.S. government client* in FY19 & FY18: https://www.usaspending.gov/recipient/8faa3bf8-d9e9-fec1-9195-f9000c98e8ec-P/2019
8/ The other thing that Palantir says is that they work for ICE Homeland Security Investigations, not Enforcement and Removal Operations.
Here's their quote to @dealbook:
Here's their quote to @dealbook:
9/ ...so why does ICE's documentation of Palantir software say THIRTEEN TIMES that it will also be used by ERO?
Here's two of those 13:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf
Here's two of those 13:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-ice-icm-june2016.pdf
10/ People like to say "this is not normal."
When a company that profits from ICE family separations IPOs and no one bats an eye, we make it normal.
When they lie about it and no one says a thing, we make it normal.
Please pay attention. Please SAY SOMETHING
When a company that profits from ICE family separations IPOs and no one bats an eye, we make it normal.
When they lie about it and no one says a thing, we make it normal.
Please pay attention. Please SAY SOMETHING
11/ People can decide for themselves if, in September 2020, it will be profitable to invest in a company that derives a substantial portion of its revenues from the deportation economy.
The moral case is more than clear. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/palantir-ipo-ice-immigration-trump-administration
The moral case is more than clear. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/04/palantir-ipo-ice-immigration-trump-administration
12/ If you want to help, follow @MijenteComite, @ConMijente, @JustFuturesLaw, @ImmDefense, and the hashtags #NoTechForICE and #DefundPalantir.
For more information on how Palantir fuels deportations, read this report from @EmpowerLLC & the folks above: https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WHO%E2%80%99S-BEHIND-ICE_-The-Tech-and-Data-Companies-Fueling-Deportations-_v1.pdf
For more information on how Palantir fuels deportations, read this report from @EmpowerLLC & the folks above: https://mijente.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/WHO%E2%80%99S-BEHIND-ICE_-The-Tech-and-Data-Companies-Fueling-Deportations-_v1.pdf
