“Patriot Act 2.0” - Palantir CEO DARES Anti-ICE Protestors To EMBRACE Government Surveillance
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp says anti-ICE protesters should support more government AI tools, sparking debate on surveillance, privacy, and national security. The PBD Podcast panel breaks down Palantir’s role in immigration enforcement, China strategy, and the risks of expanding data power.
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| 0:00.0 | Palantir CEO, Alex Carp, says anti-ice protesters should want more Palantir in the government. |
| 0:08.0 | Let me read this to you and this kind of goes to what we're talking about here with the Burr Tourism. |
| 0:15.0 | So if we go to Palantir, see Alex Carp protest, protesters demonstrating against the U.S. immigration customs. |
| 0:24.8 | Enforcement should support the use of its companies' tools in the government. |
| 0:29.1 | If you are critical of eyes, you should be out there protesting for more Palantir. |
| 0:36.6 | He told CNBC, our product actually, in its core, requires people to confirm with Fourth Amendment data protections. |
| 0:40.3 | Carp Commons came as an anti-protest, |
| 0:43.8 | continue in Minneapolis, following the fatal shooting of two demonstrators. |
| 0:50.0 | Documents released by the Department of Homeland Security last week also showed that the panel showed that the company is providing AI tools to the agency to help its sift through |
| 0:56.1 | tips Palantir previously bring criticized for its work with ICE and Roland President Trump's |
| 1:01.8 | trackdown on immigration federal documents from April revealed that the company had $30 million |
| 1:06.3 | dollar contract with the agency to provide real-time visibility on people's self-deporting. |
| 1:12.0 | So what do you think about the idea of Palantir being used for immigration as well as |
| 1:20.3 | using a company like Palantir against China when they're trying to take advantage of bird tourism? |
| 1:25.8 | I don't think it's going to be used for those things explicitly at all because I think we have the means to track a lot of these things right now with the things that are tracked. Like, you know, we found out the other day that Google just listens to everything that we say. Like at any moment. $16 million lawsuit. Yeah. So you're telling me you can't filter that in a way where it's tracking these type of things? No, I think that's a great marketing pitch and something that Alex Carp would say, of course. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, you can't filter that in a way where it's tracking these type of things? No, I think that's a great marketing pitch and something that Alex Karp would say, of course. You know, you could make anything about Palantir sound good. If there's a problem, yeah, Palantir could fix it because it could do anything. It could track any data that you have and it could be used to alleviate this. But no, it's... Would there be a day where you would say, you know what, if I have to choose between Palantir, you know, getting deeper, or preventing what China's doing long term with this million and a half, you know, birth tourists that they come here, they take them out to China, indoctrinate him, and then later on send them over here to go to school with the idea. one day becoming a U.S. president 40, 50, 60 years from now. And now we have somebody that likes what China does, but they're now the president of U.S. Would that be worth the risk for you to use Palantir to filter some of these people out? No, because I think we have the means to filter a lot of these people out right now. I think, you know, the struggle is that half the government doesn't want to. Half the government does, you know, so I completely reject the notion that we don't have the technology to get rid of these people right now. I think this is just a Trojan horror saying, like, oh, now we finally have this technology where we could use it to get them out. You're saying you don't trust Alex Carp. I don't trust Alex Carp. I don't trust half the CIA. I don't trust half of Congress. And I think that half of the government and the half of the Congress is the problem, not the |
| 2:54.3 | technology. And we've given up more than enough rights and freedom with the NSA for them to track all of the stuff. So no, I don't think the pounders. It's the same. You're about to get audited by IRS. I know. |
| 3:09.6 | I'm going to say, it's the same argument with the border, right? |
| 3:12.7 | For the four years of the Biden administration, it said, we can't close the border. |
| 3:13.5 | We can't do that. |
| 3:15.5 | And then Trump comes in and close. Overnight. |
| 3:16.2 | It's not, as you're saying, it's not lacking the way. |
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