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WP: How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Palantir's Immigration OS supports ICE deportations with a $60 million contract, raising internal and public concerns over civil liberties and company values.
- Palantir Technologies won an urgent, sole‑source ICE contract on April 11 to build an Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, renewed on Sept. 25 to about $60 million.
- Palantir executives say the shift followed Trump executive orders and Alex Karp's rightward turn after Oct. 7, 2023, aligning him with Republican national-security hawks.
- Inside Palantir, employees described the project as a prototype, with seven months in, some raising concerns and resignations after ICE's use of Immigration OS, which tracks encounters, asylum, and departures in near real time, while details remain undisclosed.
- ICE adopted Immigration OS as part of a campaign to detain the so-called "Worst of the Worst" in Chicago, Charlotte, and Portland, while federal judges ruled last month the enforcement tactics "shock the conscience" and DHS called those rulings from "activist judges."
- After revising its code of conduct in March, Palantir Technologies faced backlash from Paul Graham and 13 former employees while federal contracts reached $128 million and stock rose more than 120 percent this year.
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How Palantir Shifted Course to Play Key Role in ICE Deportations
For years, Alex Karp, Palantir’s CEO, had declared the data management company to be “involved in supporting progressive values,” saying he has repeatedly “walked away” from contracts that targeted minorities or that he found otherwise unethical. Even as Palantir took on extensive data management contracts for the federal government, the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
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