Our communities are living in fear right now — not just undocumented neighbors, but families with mixed immigration status, citizens who share a last name or a neighborhood with someone ICE is targeting. That fear doesn't stay contained. It changes how people drive to work, whether kids go to school, whether someone calls 911 when there's a real emergency. That's not the Arizona I want to live in.
Palantir is a major piece of the technology behind federal immigration enforcement sweeps. Their software helps coordinate surveillance and targeting across agencies. Senator Gallego just returned $17,500 in Palantir executive donations and cut ties with the company entirely — because he recognized that taking that money sent the wrong message to the people he represents. That matters. It tells us Arizonans are paying attention to who profits from this surveillance infrastructure and who in elected office is connected to them.
Arizona state agencies and local law enforcement should not be entering into contracts with Palantir or similar surveillance companies that feed data into federal immigration enforcement operations — full stop. I'm asking you to publicly oppose any state-level contracts with Palantir, push for full disclosure of any existing agreements between Arizona agencies and immigration surveillance vendors, and support a formal review process before any new contracts like this are signed. Our tax dollars should not be funding tools that are being used to tear families apart in our own communities.
Please stand with Arizonans and reject state contracts with Palantir and similar surveillance companies.
