Jon Stewart Exposes Palantir's Terrifying ICE Surveillance Tools

Palantir's Role in ICE Surveillance

• 💡 A leaked user guide reveals Palantir's involvement in an ICE tool called ELITE, which allows agents to draw circles on a map to identify potential targets.
• 🎯 This tool provides target information including name, photo, and an address confidence score, raising concerns about how targets are defined.
• 🗺️ The addresses used by ELITE are reportedly sourced, in part, from the Department of Health and Human Services, a concerning data linkage.
• 🔍 Palantir has a history of working with ICE's investigations arm, but has recently pivoted to explicitly support immigration enforcement.

Redefining Domestic Terrorism

• ⚠️ The Secretary of Homeland Security has publicly labeled individuals as domestic terrorists before any investigation, suggesting a new, broad definition.
• 🗣️ This new definition appears to encompass individuals who are protesting, documenting, impeding, or affecting immigration enforcement efforts.
• 🚨 The transcript highlights shootings involving agents during immigration crackdowns, suggesting a pattern of escalation.

Political and Financial Entanglements

• 💰 ICE is reportedly paying Palantir $30 million for its surveillance platform.
• 🏦 The Trump administration's DOJ is allegedly assembling a secret database of domestic terrorists, an escalation of existing directives.
• 🤝 Palantir, which went public in 2020, has secured government contracts since the Obama administration, with lawmakers from both parties holding personal financial investments in the company.
• 💸 Campaign contributions from private prison companies to Democrats who vote to fund ICE suggest a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
• 📢 The need to get money out of politics is emphasized as a solution to issues of transparency and accountability, particularly concerning surveillance tech and private prisons.