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posted by on Tuesday December 13 2016, @06:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the choose-to-recuse dept.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion, but Trump's transition team and ultimately cabinet, seems rife with conflicts of ignorance. The Intercept reports that:

Palantir Technologies, the data mining company co-founded by billionaire and Trump transition advisor Peter Thiel, will likely assist the Trump Administration in its efforts to track and collect intelligence on immigrants, according to a review of public records by The Intercept. Since 2011, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency's Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has paid Palantir tens of millions of dollars to help construct and operate a complex intelligence system called FALCON, which allows ICE to store, search, and analyze troves of data that include family relationships, employment information, immigration history, criminal records, and home and work addresses.

I guess this is what happens when you elect a businessman to political office: they run it like a business.

Working closely with a President-elect who has pledged to dramatically expand ICE, Thiel's varied connections to the immigration agency place him in a position to potentially benefit financially from a deportation campaign that carries highly personal stakes for millions of Americans.

They always say: you have nothing to worry about, if you have nothing to hide.

Palantir, which is backed by the CIA's venture capital arm, did not respond to a request for comment regarding its ICE contracts and concerns over potential conflicts of interest. Peter Thiel spokesperson Jeremiah Hall declined to comment on a list of emailed queries, including a question asking whether Thiel has yet signed the Trump transition ethics agreement.


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  • (Score: 1) by Francis on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:30AM

    by Francis (5544) on Wednesday December 14 2016, @04:30AM (#441170)

    I'm not a quisling, I'm somebody who has lived abroad and realizes just how precarious it is to live in a foreign country without documentation. I had my documentation, but just losing it could result in all sorts of problems potentially including being arrested and deported. Not to mention what unethical employers could do.

    Tolerating the situation where millions of people are living in the country without the rights and responsibilities that other immigrants and residents have is not conducive to a healthy society. The whole idea that this is the same thing as being racist is rather ridiculous. Some of us have no problem with immigrants that come here having fulfilled the appropriate requirements to get the relevant documents to come here.

  • (Score: 1) by tftp on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:03AM

    by tftp (806) on Thursday December 15 2016, @01:03AM (#441492) Homepage

    Tolerating the situation where millions of people are living in the country without the rights and responsibilities that other immigrants and residents have is not conducive to a healthy society.

    This is absolutely true. People with no future have to turn to crime and other undesired behavior. This should be stopped by granting the full rights to some and expelling the rest. The difference between the left and the right is only in the ratio between the two.