NJ Immigrant Groups Call for State to Divest From Palantir

NJ immigrant groups call for state to divest from Palantir

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (PIX11) -  In a rally on Wednesday, groups like Make The Road and Break The Bonds New Jersey united on tax day to send a message to the state investment council to divest from Palantir Technologies - a government contractor that provides products to ICE. "We want the New Jersey Division of Investment [...]

NJ Rallies Pressure Gottheimer, Kean Over Palantir ICE Ties – NJ Urban News

Immigrant rights advocates are urging  state and local leaders to divest from Palantir, which has provided key data-mining and surveillance technology to ICE to support their detention and deportation of immigrants.  New Jersey’s state pension fund invests more than $130 million in the company, and Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-5th) and Thomas Kean Jr. (R-7th) have accepted donations from company executives — even as advocates say its surveillance to…