1/ If you are thinking about investing in @PalantirTech, then here are some people who you should be aware of.
#DefundPalantir #NoTechForICE
2/ A 7-year-old boy fled Honduras after his dad was murdered and his mom left him. His uncle took him in.
ICE agents came to their home claiming that they were checking on the boy.
With the boy watching, the agents arrested the uncle and then put him in removal proceedings.
3/ A gang breaks into the home of two brothers in El Salvador and assaults them. They flee to the U.S. to be with their mom.
They give CBP officers their mom's name and address.
Then ICE agents show up at her house, arrest her, and deport her to El Salvador.
4/ A Guatemalan teen arrives alone at the border. He tells officials to call his brother, a husband and dad to two young kids in New Mexico.
Officials ask his brother his information, assuring that it won't be used against him.
A few months later, ICE comes and arrests him.
5/ When a child shows up alone at the border they are exhausted and terrified. Many have been sexually assaulted.
They trust the adults who interview them. When they're asked who ight take them in, they tell the truth.
Palantir helps ICE use that data to deport their families.
6/ Please don't believe me.
Please believe ICE.
Here is their official plan for all of this. Ctrl+F for "ICM" - @PalantirTech's custom-built case management software: documentcloud.org/documents/5980…
7/ This is just one of a panoply of abuses that ICE has facilitated. Read @marisa_franco of @ConMijente: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
8/ @PalantirTech's CEO, Alex Karp, is such a coward that he won't even acknowledge what his company does for money.
Here he is in Davos calling the company's ICE contracts "a de minimis part of our work":
9/ In reality, last fiscal year (and the one before that), ICE was Palantir's second-largest U.S. government client, providing Palantir 4% of its revenue. usaspending.gov/recipient/8faa…
10/ Palantir likes to present themselves as the smartest guys in the room.
Waving away your deportation money as de minimis when document after document shows that it is in fact substantial is... not very smart.
People are watching. And they will notice.
11/ What Palantir is really trying to do is cash out before the election tilts even further towards Joe Biden and away from Donald Trump -- a close ally of Palantir's founder, Peter Thiel.
Good luck with that.
12/ Sources for the accounts that started this thread:
immigrantjustice.org/sites/default/…
supportkind.org/wp-content/upl…
santafenewmexican.com/news/local_new…
Here's my write-up last week for @Slate/@FutureTenseNow: slate.com/technology/202…
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