Palantir, the large dumb Large Tech firm named after the crystal ball in “Lord of the Rings,” simply dropped a Securities and Alternate Fee submitting—which might be hilarious if we lived in a distinct timeline, one the place Large Tech firms hadn’t completely abased themselves in service to President Donald Trump’s worst impulses.
You see, Palantir wants the SEC and buyers to know that it could not be capable of recruit, rent, or retain expertise if immigration laws and restrictions tighten or if visa caps are imposed.
Isn’t it good to see an enormous firm sticking up for immigrants like this?
Oh, wait.
A lot of Palantir’s work is, in fact, leveraging, synergizing, right-sizing, monetizing, and operationalizing authorities information that makes it simpler to brutalize and deport immigrants.
Sure, the corporate that has just lately taken $81 million of your tax {dollars} to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement flip the nation right into a terrifying nightmare for immigrants and anybody who helps them wants to have the ability to rent immigrants to raised terrify immigrants.
All of that is distressing, however not significantly stunning.
Palantir was based by Peter Thiel, who, although himself an immigrant, is deeply, spectacularly racist. Palantir is presently run by Alex Karp, who views the Trump crew’s penchant for bombing fishing boats within the Caribbean as a progress alternative.
Make no mistake: Karp is additionally deeply, spectacularly racist, yammering on about how “unfettered immigration” in Europe is a catastrophe and causes “mass social dislocation.”
Palantir’s function in mass deportations is just not an attenuated one. It’s not offering some small, in any other case innocuous widget.
Somewhat, it’s the standard-bearers for anti-immigrant expertise. How else would you describe the corporate that has developed the “ELITE” software, which ICE makes use of to extra confidently predict which five-year-olds are the worst of the worst and from which college parking tons to abduct them?
However apparently Palantir determined this was an ideal time for a rousing refrain of “Immigrants (We Get the Job Executed)”—however just for its personal workforce. The federal government can’t make it tougher for Palantir to rent immigrants as a result of then Palantir gained’t be as tip-top environment friendly at deporting them.
No phrase on whether or not Palantir wants these hypothetical future immigrants to execute its $10 billion contract with the U.S. Military to coordinate software program contracts and get “vital price efficiencies,” which was what the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity was presupposed to have taken care of.
There’s additionally no phrase on whether or not these hypothetical future immigrants would additionally get the privilege of engaged on “ImmigrationOS,” a twee little identify for a mass surveillance software created to make sure that the federal government can brutalize at scale and make all of Stephen Miller’s ghoulish deportation desires come true.
By no means concern; Palantir can in all probability simply “donate” tens of thousands and thousands of {dollars} to Trump to make sure it will get a move and may rent immigrants. Effectively, the proper of immigrants.
Maybe some super-racist Afrikaners, the one individuals being admitted as refugees today, might match the invoice? They’ve already bought the bigoted white supremacist vibe on lock, in order that they’re doubtless completely superb with being immigrants whose whole job is to hurt different immigrants.
It’s a match made in hell.
