Immigration enforcement is destroying communities and killing civilians—and the billionaire class is profiting. Hours after an ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota, Yale's Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility informed students that Yale will not divest from Palantir, a data and technology company critical to ICE's operations nationwide. Tell the ACIR and Yale's trustees today: pull your billions out of Palantir, Target Hospitality, Anduril, Flock Safety, and all companies complicit in ICE and CBP's terror.

Palantir, co-founded by Trump megadonor Peter Thiel, has played a critical role in facilitating ICE’s surveillance and deportation regime. Last April, Palantir entered a $30M contract with the Department of Homeland Security to build “ImmigrationOS,” a software that allows ICE to build data-mined profiles of immigrants, placing them on a map to be tracked and deported. This is after nearly a decade of other collaborations with ICE, with notable involvement during family separations in Trump’s first term. Palantir has also provided critical support to Israel's military operations in Gaza, with CEO Alex Karp praising their involvement in 2024, noting the company was “on the ground,” engaged in “operationally crucial operations.” Palantir’s partners include Unit 8200, the IDF's cyberwarfare hub, developing technology to identify and locate strike targets in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Yale’s ties to immigration enforcement technology reach beyond Palantir. Last year, Yale disclosed that part of its endowment was managed by General Catalyst, a venture capital firm and leading investor in Anduril. As the sole contractor for hundreds of AI-guided watchtowers along the United States’ southern border, Anduril consistently coinvests in startups driven towards inhumane surveillance and subsequent deportation and family separation. Furthermore, TDR Capital, one of Yale’s favored investment firms, manages a “significant stake” in the company behind one of ICE’s largest children’s jails — where preschooler Liam Conejo Ramos was abducted just weeks ago.

Yale’s financial support for Trump’s violent immigration crackdown is particularly reprehensible given increasing ICE violence in New Haven. Only a week after 100 New Haven community members protested the killing of Renee Good, ICE arrested a man inside the Connecticut Superior Court in New Haven. This came after the abduction and 44-day detention of a Wilbur Cross High School junior last summer. During a local protest in June 2025, a 13-year-old girl whose mother was abducted by ICE agents spoke directly to immigration enforcement, pleading. “You’re causing a lot of pain to these families by taking them away.”