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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

Last updated: April 20, 2025 4:30 pm
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Founder of Y Combinator Criticizes Palantir’s Work with ICE

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work.

The back-and-forth came after federal filings showed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is paying Palantir $30 million to create the Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, or ImmigrationOS, to help ICE decide who to target for deportation, as well as offering “near real-time visibility” into self-deportations.

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham shared headlines about Palantir’s contract on X, writing, “It’s a very exciting time in tech right now. If you’re a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of the police state.”

In response, Palantir’s global head of commercial Ted Mabrey wrote that he’s “looking forward to the next set of hires that decided to apply to Palantir after reading your post.”

Mabrey did not discuss the specifics of Palantir’s current work with ICE, but he said the company started working with the Department of Homeland Security (under which ICE operates) “in the immediate response to the murder of Agent Jaime Zapata by the Zetas in an effort dubbed Operation Fallen Hero.”

“When people are alive because of what you built, and others are dead because what you built was not yet good enough, you develop a very different perspective on the meaning of your work,” Mabrey said.

He also compared Graham’s criticism to protests over Google’s Project Maven in 2018, which eventually prompted the company to stop its work analyzing drone images for the military.

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Mabrey urged anyone interested in working for Palantir to read CEO Alexander Karp’s new book “The Technological Republic,” which argues that the software industry needs to rebuild its relationship with the government.

“We hire believers,” Mabrey continued. “Not in the sense of homogeneity of belief but in the intrinsic capacity to believe in something bigger than yourself. Belief is required because 1) our work is very, very hard and 2) you should expect to weather attacks like this all the time; from all sides of the political aisle.”

Graham then pressed Mabrey to “commit publicly on behalf of Palantir not to build things that help the government violate the US constitution,” though he acknowledged that such a commitment would have “no legal force.”

“But I’m hoping that if they make the commitment, and some Palantir employee is one day asked to do something illegal, he’ll say ‘I didn’t sign up for this’ and refuse,” Graham wrote.

Mabrey in turn compared Graham’s question to “the ‘will you promise to stop beating your wife’ court room parlor trick,” but he added that the company has “made this promise so many ways from Sunday,” starting with a commitment to “the 3500 enormously thoughtful people who are grinding only because they believe they are making the world a better place every single day as they see first hand what we are actually doing.”

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