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Palantir Contracts and ICE Camps Expand US Carceral State

August 12, 2026

USA Today newsroom unions clash with corporate leadership over Palantir partnerships while ICE feeds millions of LexisNexis data records into proprietary surveillance architectures. Across the federal apparatus, the Trump administration weaponizes banking networks to debank dissidents, ties multimillion-dollar police grants to ideological compliance, and dismisses remaining January 6 prosecutions.