ICE agents are walking around with a target list of 20 million people on their phones.
Palantir compiled the list, which is roughly the number of undocumented people living in the United States. When agents conduct an immigration raid, the app displays the names of other people who may be nearby, so one arrest can turn into several. That kind of power doesn’t disappear when a new president takes office. It just changes hands.
In a country where being on ICE’s list is enough to get detained without cause, this list cannot exist. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your representatives to kill the Palantir contract.
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