Dear John,
Palantir Technologies, an AI-powered surveillance firm co-founded by billionaire Trump donor Peter Thiel, landed massive contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to power a nationwide system of targeting, tracking, and deporting immigrants.
They are literally building the infrastructure of authoritarianism with your tax dollars.
Palantir's software created a centralized system that lets ICE mine through personal records, tap into health data, access state and local databases, and monitor real-time locations of people they label "removable." It is the digital backbone of a mass surveillance program that reaches into schools, hospitals, workplaces, and even places of worship. This is a machine designed to terrorize entire communities into silence and submission.
We cannot allow this technology to become permanent. Congress must investigate and dismantle the Palantir surveillance programs, cancel the contracts, and ensure that the government can never again outsource civil rights violations to private tech companies.
Add your name and tell Congress to shut down Trump's immigrant surveillance machine before it grows any stronger.
Palantir will be the tool he uses to expand state power beyond what we’ve seen in modern American history if Congress doesn’t step in. It will not stop at the border. It will not stop with immigrants. This is how dissent gets tracked. This is how political opposition gets crushed.
The scope of ICE’s data access through Palantir now includes nearly three-quarters of American adults. That includes citizens. That includes voters. That includes you. The infrastructure is already in place, and Trump is ready to exploit it fully to carry out his authoritarian ambitions.
Even former Palantir engineers have raised the alarm, calling the company’s work with ICE unethical and dangerous. These are the people who built the systems, and they are warning us that those systems are being used to violate privacy, due process, and constitutional rights on a massive scale. When the people behind the curtain are yelling stop, we should listen.
Congress has the power to end this. But they will not act unless we demand it.
Demand an end to Palantir's role in ICE’s surveillance state. Immigrants deserve dignity. Democracy demands accountability. Technology must never be used as a weapon against the people.
We must make sure the government uses technology to uphold justice instead of fueling oppression.
- DFA AF Team
