rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/yale-corp-divest-from-palantir-and-ice-tech?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-yale-corp-divest-from-palantir-and-ice-tech' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Yale Endowment Justice Collective https://actionnetwork.org/users/yale-endowment-justice-collective-2/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/letters/photos/000/433/865/normal/big_map_(2).png 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: pull your billions out of Palantir, 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 that is a leading investor in Anduril. As the sole contractor for hundreds of AI guided watch towers along the U.S. southern border, Anduril consistently and strategically coinvests in startups driven towards inhumane surveillance and subsequent deportation and family separation. Yale’s financial support for Trump’s violent immigration crackdown has had tangible impacts in its own backyard. Only a week after 100 community members protested the killing of Renee Good, Ice arrested a man inside the CT Superior Court in New Haven. This came after the abduction and 44-day detention of a Wilbur Cross High School Junior last fall. During a local protest this past June, 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.” Tell the ACIR and the Corporation that Yale’s dollars should fund our futures, not the companies endangering them https://actionnetwork.org/letters/yale-corp-divest-from-palantir-and-ice-tech