ImmigrationOS & Palantir
A tech company that is currently creating a masterdatabase on all americans and helping ICE find targets.
What is Palantir
The number of U.S. airports where ICE agents were deployed on March 23, 2026.
What is more than a dozen (14+)?
The official DHS name for the large-scale immigration enforcement operation launched in Minneapolis–St. Paul in December 2025.
What is Operation Metro Surge?
Minnesota's Attorney General who filed a federal lawsuit seeking to stop Operation Metro Surge and declare it unconstitutional.
Who is Keith Ellison?
This 37-year-old ICU nurse was fatally shot by ICE agents on January 24, 2026, while participating in a protest against immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.
Who is Alex Pretti?
This Palantir tool maps potential deportation targets, creates individual dossiers, and assigns a score to a person's most likely current address.
What is ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement)?
TSA staffing collapsed partly because this many officers had quit by late March 2026, after going weeks without pay.
What is at least 480?
The total number of arrests ICE reported making in Minneapolis since the operation began.
What is approximately 3,000?
This federal judge found that ICE violated at least 96 court orders in Minnesota since January 1, 2026.
Who is Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz?
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz called Operation Metro Surge 'a campaign of organized brutality' and accused the Trump administration of this anti-democratic practice when it opened investigations into him and Mayor Frey. What is weaponizing the justice system (or political retribution)?
What is weaponizing the justice system (or political retribution)?
ImmigrationOS pulls data from this government agency to obtain people's home addresses.
What is the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS / Medicaid)?
This San Francisco airport arrest on March 22, 2026 involved a mother and her 9-year-old daughter with an outstanding removal order dating to this year.
What is 2019?
This 37-year-old US citizen and mother of three was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026.
Who is Renée Nicole Good?
The constitutional amendment Minnesota cited to argue ICE had commandeered state police powers without authorization.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
According to a Minnesota Reformer report, more than this many people were trained by the legal observer 'Monarca' project during the surge.
What is 26,000?
Palantir was co-founded by this billionaire tech investor who also holds a stake in the company.
Who is Peter Thiel?
ICE agents at airports were cleared to help with crowd control and checking IDs, but NOT allowed to operate these stations, the main source of travel delays.
What are security screening checkpoints?
This many ICE agents were deployed in Minnesota during Operation Metro Surge.
What is around 2000?
ICE has more than doubled its officer count in roughly one year, growing from around 10,000 to this number by early 2026.
What is over 22,000?
This Minnesota federal judge stated in February 2026 that the 'overwhelming majority' of ICE cases brought before him involved people lawfully present in the United States.
Who is Judge Jerry W. Blackwell?
Critics warned that ImmigrationOS concentrates enforcement power in AI platforms with minimal oversight, raising concerns about this broader risk to individual freedoms.
What are civil liberties (or privacy / civil rights)?
President Trump asked ICE agents to remove this item while working at airports, saying it was not the right 'look' for public interactions.
What are masks?
Trump turned his attention to Minnesota following unsubstantiated allegations spread by right-wing media that members of this ethnic community were funding terrorism.
Who are Somali Minnesotans (Somali Americans)?
This Republican candidate for Minnesota governor dropped out of the 2026 race, saying he could not support 'retribution on the citizens of our state.'
Who is Chris Madel?
Despite ICE publicly claiming the surge targeted this type of immigrant fraud centered in the Somali-American community, only 23 of those arrested were from Somali, and none had ties to the alleged fraud.
What is social services (or government program) fraud?