WORKERS PERSPECTIVE The Washington Post on Thursday revealed workers in Palantir are protesting the companies contracts with ICE. We learned that hundreds of workers have signed two separate letters calling on the company to reconsider it's relationship with ICE. This story follows news earlier this week that management at Palantir decided to double down on profiting from human rights abuses by renewing one of their ICE contracts.

We find inspiration in the actions of the Palantir workers who are fighting against management efforts to diminish the role the companies technology is having on immigrant families. We now know Palantir's tech helped ICE to target sponsors that directly led to deportations and family separations, and that it was used to target immigrants in as part of work place raids in NYC last year which again led to family separations. It can't be easy in a company like Palantir where management have consistently lied to workers about the work they do with ICE. It will continue to be difficult for workers over the coming days and weeks as they continue to organize against management's decision to double down on profit over human rights.



Tech worker discomfort with aiding and abetting immigration policy enforcement led to over 1,300 Google workers calling on management not to make their hosting platform available to Customs and Border Patrol. And today we learned that following years of organizing inside Google the bosses are trying to stop workers from discussing workplace issues. Managements are saying "look we don't want to talk about politics, this is a place of work, just make the damn muslim registry and stop talking about non work stuff." The idea that a discussion over whether Google does business with CBP/ICE is not related to their work is preposterous.



As efforts by workers ripple across industries it will be important for workers to stick together and continue to organize together, despite efforts made by bosses to either co-opt or kill those efforts.



This is all about power and bosses won't give it up easy.



We send solidarity to all workers who are trying to curb tech's complicity with ICE and CBP as these rogue agencies implement racist and xenophobic immigration policies.