Palantir Defends ICE Work After Killing of Alex Pretti
Palantir employees pressed leadership for answers after federal agents killed Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti, raising ethical and operational concerns about the companys work with ICE; Palantir updated an internal wiki to defend the work as improving ICE decision making while acknowledging reputational risk.
- Staff flooded a company Slack channel with questions about Palantirs contracts with ICE after Pretti was shot and killed.
- Palantirs privacy and civil liberties team updated an internal wiki outlining pilots with ICE and USCIS and describing risk mitigation measures.
- The company says it began a six month pilot for ImmigrationOS in April 2025 tied to a roughly $30 million ICE contract for enforcement prioritization and self deportation tracking.
- Leadership said the software helps agents make more precise decisions but acknowledged reputational risk and that misuse must be handled through law and oversight.
- Palantir acknowledged it does not police every customer workflow and that customers could combine outside data with its tools, prompting employee concern about expanded surveillance.