Alex Bores
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Apr
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And then they said, civil immigration.
And I said, we're not touching that.
That's not the work that we are building this for.
And I was empowered as the lead of the project to do that.
I had a contract that allowed me to, because it was three mutually agreed upon case types.
And while I was there and in the DOJ project, we didn't do any of that work.
That's not how the decision went at every customer or in every project.
I never worked on any of those projects, and so I was never cleared on it.
But to the best of my understanding, during that time, it was not stopping the Trump administration from using it for immigration.
I don't think there was building of features specifically for deportations, but I could be wrong about that.
But even the fact that they weren't going to stop it from being used in that way got a number of employees, myself included, quite upset.
You leave Palantir in 2019.
Why?
Separately from me on a project that I never worked on, Palantir had signed a contract with a department within ICE called HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, that during the Obama administration...
was focused on anti-human trafficking, anti-drug trafficking, sometimes counterfeiting, things that are not controversial and that everyone would support.
And then when Trump comes in in 2017, they try to change the nature of that work.
They try to get another part of ICE called ERO, Enforcement and Removal Operations, the part that everyone thinks of as ICE, to get access to the software and to use it for deportations.
And there were a lot of conversations internally at Palantir about what was actually happening.
As employees can always see that if we weren't clear on the project.
And a fundamental question came up of, well, why not write into the contract those same protections that we have elsewhere where we can say, don't use it for deportations.
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