Opinion | Palantir’s C.T.O. on ICE: ‘People Voted on This’


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Palantir’s C.T.O. on ICE: ‘People Voted on This’

Disagreement over how the Trump administration has approached deportations “is the beauty of the political process,” Palantir’s C.T.O., Shyam Sankar, argues on “Interesting Times.”

You know, what ICE is doing was voted on at the ballot box. So —— So Palantir — again, not that you speak for everyone at Palantir — but Palantir is more comfortable with mass deportations in the context of a world where Donald Trump campaigned on mass deportations and won than it might be in a world where he had not mentioned deportations at all, and then asked Palantir to design a mass deportation abetting software. What I’m saying is the people voted on this. That seems like a functioning democracy there. And of course, there’s going to continue to be discursive interaction and disagreement. That’s the beauty of our political process. But that’s an important distinction.

Disagreement over how the Trump administration has approached deportations “is the beauty of the political process,” Palantir’s C.T.O., Shyam Sankar, argues on “Interesting Times.”

October 30, 2025

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