- The Palantir software firm ensures a contract of almost $ 30 million with ICE
- The company will help the agency find physical locations and track logistics
- Palantir has worked with ICE since 2014 and has multiple military associations
The immigration and customs control of the United States (ICE) has granted a $ 29.9 million contract to the Palantir software firm to build a software system to quickly enforce the deportation objectives of the Trump administration, reports 404 media.
The leaked messages show that the role of Palantir includes finding the “physical location of the people who are marked for deportation” and “produce potential customers for the police to find people to deport and monitor the logistics of Trump’s mass deportation effort.”
The department did not listen to other offers, since Palantir is the only provider capable of delivering the system in such a fast change (September 25), the department argues.
Expected reaction
The president of Palantir, Peter Thiel, was one of Trump’s first sponsors, and the company already has several defense contracts, and has worked in association with ICE since 2014.
The software firm also works in association with the US military and Israelis, and assumed the Pentagon Project Maven contract, using automatic learning for drones and unmanned arms systems, after Google decided not to follow development after the requests and resignations of the staff.
Trump’s denial of due process to deportees, the expulsion of legal residents and the evasion of judicial orders have obtained a serious reaction, with civil rights organizations that ask the technological companies to end their relations with the administration and application agencies.
This violent reaction led Ted Mabrey, Palantir’s global chief of global trade to write on Twitter that the new technological workers joined as a result of the Palantir contract to “expect climate attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political hall”, adding that “, the only way to counteract these thugs is not to argue but build.”
Techradar PRO contacted Palantir and ICE to obtain a vision of any protection for legal residents and the citizens respectful of the law, but we have not yet received an answer.
