Since the beginning, Mijente has organized against migrant prosecutions and deportations. We’ve seen technology aid the acceleration of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and their devastating consequences.
We launched the #NoTechForICE campaign after noticing that people were being picked up by ICE in sanctuary cities. Disturbingly, the information used in these abductions seemed to come from the City and county. We found that tech companies and third-party brokers were quietly providing the digital backbone for raids, detentions, and deportations. Our report “Who’s Behind ICE?” is the first in a series of reports exposing the Big Tech and U.S. government schemes.
Since 2018, Mijente has brought immigrant communities together with students, tech workers, academics, allies, and more to fight back against corporate greed and the mass surveillance state.`
How does it work?
Tech companies like Palantir Technologies create target lists and digital tools for ICE to raid homes, workplaces, and communities. Others, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, support the detention and deportation machine along with policing and military operations.
Today, under a returning Trump administration, these same companies expand their reach, feeding data pipelines from Medicaid, housing records, and public programs directly to ICE. Not only that, Palantir has already been chosen to compile sensitive data on ALL U.S. residents. They are merging public benefits and law enforcement information to create new digital targeting systems.
This next frontier of law enforcement continues growing with little to no transparency, regulation, or oversight. Left unchecked, we face a new world order designed and controlled by Big Tech and enabled by the government.
#NoTechForICE efforts:
- Expose tech’s role in criminal justice justice and immigration enforcement.
- Educate communities to protect themselves against new forms of criminalization.
- Utilize direct action to confront corporate actors.
- Organize with tech workers and students to leverage their influence over Silicon Valley.
- Target specific companies with demands to end their collaborations with DHS/ICE.
Key #NoTechforICE Reports
Who’s Behind ICE
Mijente, along with the National Immigration Project and the Immigrant Defense Project, commissioned research to expose the technology and data companies enabling ICE operations. The report reveals that major tech corporations, particularly Amazon and Palantir, play central roles in supporting ICE’s surveillance, detention, and deportation systems through extensive data infrastructure and software contracts. Importantly, it shows how Palantir’s technology was used to identify and arrest family members of unaccompanied migrant children, contradicting the company’s claims that its tools are not used for deportations.
Mijente’s 2018 Who’s Behind ICE art installation at Burning Man
Sabotaging Sanctuary
Mijente and the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (CIRC) released a report on how ICE uses information from data brokers to circumvent sanctuary policies in Colorado. It reveals how ICE contracts with data brokers to receive jail-booking data from the VINE jail alert system, run by the Colorado County Sheriff’s Office. This gives ICE real-time jail booking data in a state where sanctuary laws are meant to prohibit cooperation between the police and immigration enforcement.
Purge Palantir 2025
Big Tech continues to build the tools used to surveil, incarcerate, and deport our communities. Help Mijente continue building a movement for a surveillance-free future. We’ve joined dozens of other movement groups to support the national #PurgePalantir campaign. If you’re interested in connecting to those efforts — sign up today.