"In April 2025, Peter Thiel's Palantir made headlines after documents were released detailing its partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to create ImmigrationOS, a massive database of information gathered from a variety of sources including the IRS, in order to surveil, detain, and deport immigrants. Thiel is not new to spearheading endeavors that aim to dehumanize and attack people of color. In fact, the tech mogul is one of the billionaires leading our modern-day version of tech neocolonialism,"
"Taking a page out of the "shock doctrine" playbook, the elite political actors behind the coup (including narco-dictator Juan Orlando Hernández, now pardoned by Donald Trump after being sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking and weapons charges) watered down environmental protections on Honduran land and approved illegal contracts to sell Indigenous and protected land to the highest bidder."
Palantir partnered with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to build ImmigrationOS, a database aggregating data from sources including the IRS to surveil, detain, and deport immigrants. Peter Thiel’s ventures extend into projects that enable privatization, extraction, and surveillance that disproportionately harm people of color and Indigenous populations. A 2009 military coup in Honduras precipitated violence, repression, and legal changes that rolled back environmental protections and authorized illegal land sales. The Honduran government approved law enabling Zones for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDEs), derived from Paul Romer’s charter city concept, creating privatized enclaves with regulatory exemptions and major tax incentives for foreign investors.
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