Олег Онопрієнко War 22 April 2025, 14:23

Palantir helps Trump administration deport migrants

Palantir has faced a barrage of criticism for providing services to the administration of the 47th president.

As TechCrunch reports , citing federal documents, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), responsible for implementing the Trump administration's deportation strategy, paid Palantir $30 million to create the so-called Immigration Lifecycle Operating System (ImmigrationOS), which will help ICE decide who to deport and also provide "near-real-time visibility" into self-deportations.

The network gave harsh assessments of Palantir's cooperation with the White House, in particular, co-founder of Y Combinator and the Hacker News portal Paul Graham urged programmers not to work for a company that is engaged in building a police state.

In response to the criticism, Palantir Chief Commercial Officer Ted Mabry wrote that such calls devalue Palantir's previous work, which has saved many lives. The company itself has worked with the administrations of previous Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

After several quotings of each other with mutual harassment, Graham and Mabry each stood by their own opinion.

In June 2022, the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, met with Alex Karp, who stated that the company was ready to become a partner of Ukraine and open an office here (which soon happened) to begin joint developments with Ukrainian specialists.