Thread by @MPower_Change

Welcome to today’s Twitter chat! We’ll break down how @AWScloud & @PalantirTech power ICE’s deportation-detention machine w/ our partners: @ConMijente @CosechaMovement @StandUpNash @LaColectiVA703 @MaketheRoadNY @DenshoProject @popdemoc @UndocuBlack & @CAAAV!

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In light of news that ICE used facial recog software to mine state driver databases & track down immigrants—it's extra crucial to break down the relationship between ICE, @PalantirTech & @awscloud (which houses Rekognition, @Amazon's facial recog software) #AmazonVSImmigrants

More on ICE's mining of state driver databases using facial recognition software here 👇 #AmazonVSImmigrants #NoTechForICE
nytimes.com/2019/07/07/us/…

Q1
A) Let’s start by breaking it down for folks. What is @Amazon Web Services (AWS)? (On Twitter: @awscloud)

B) What is @PalantirTech? How do they work together to support ICE’s infrastructure?

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Q2 @ConMijente reported that Palantir helped “ICE agents build profiles of immigrant children & their families for the prosecution & arrest of any undocumented person they encountered." How does @PalantirTech do this? How do they explain their ties w/ ICE? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q3 Let’s contextualize the @AWScloud/ @PalantirTech/ ICE relationship. How do the histories of community policing & detaining immigrants intersect with state surveillance? Is this an extension of decades-long practices? @UndocuBlack @DenshoProject @ConMijente #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q4 How have @AWScloud & @PalantirTech directly contributed to the detention camp crisis at the border and across the country, @conmijente? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q4 EDIT: This question is also for our friends @MaketheRoadNY! #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q5 @denshoproject, help us draw another historical line. How are these detention camps an extension of or similar to Japanese incarceration camps of the early 1940s? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q6 A recent @Truthout article explored how we can't forget that detention camps are part of the larger prison industrial complex, in which over 2M folks are caged: truthout.org/articles/they-…

@UndocuBlack why is this vital to our understanding of detention camps? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q7 This brings us to abolition. Why is abolition our goal? Why is ensuring that @Amazon & @PalantirTech stop providing tech to ICE an integral part of an abolitionist vision and in line with the #AbolishICE movement? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q8 For our community-based groups, how has @Amazon impacted the communities you work with? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q9 For our community-based groups, what are the effects of constant threats of ICE raids on folks in your communities? Of having families in indefinite detention? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q10 How have folks in your communities been resisting against @Amazon/@awscloud and @PalantirTech? #AmazonVSImmigrants

Q11 Let's talk next steps. What can we do? How can folks learn more, take action, & fight back? @popdemoc @LaColectiVA703 @StandUpNash @ConMijente @DailyKos #AmazonVSImmigrants

That's it for our chat today, folks! Thank you @ConMijente @DenshoProject @MaketheRoadNY @StandUpNash @LaColectiVA703 @CosechaMovement @PopDemoc @UndocuBlack @CAAAV @DailyKos for the powerful, informative, nuanced, and crucial conversation today! #AmazonVSImmigrants

Thank you to all the folks & organizations that replied to, liked, retweeted, commented, & shared this conversation in any capacity!

Let's get the message out. Keep sharing the info in this thread and let's use this momentum to build a better world together. #AmazonVSImmigrants

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