Make The Road States
@mtrstates.bsky.social
National organization that works alongside state-based Make the Roads to build power of immigrant & working-class communities of color. maketheroadstates.org
Powerful quote from @maketheroadnj.bsky.social:
"We want to make sure we are not forgetting the conversation about the data infrastructure, the backbone, that holds up ICE … The state should not be giving one dollar to Palantir.”
"We want to make sure we are not forgetting the conversation about the data infrastructure, the backbone, that holds up ICE … The state should not be giving one dollar to Palantir.”
A normie state investment conference meeting in New Jersey turned into a referendum on investment in Palantir. People are angry. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social has the story.
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New Jerseyans Demand State Divestment From ICE Profiteer Palantir - The American Prospect
Locals at a routine state investment council meeting this week told board members they must get taxpayer money out of the surveillance tech company.
prospect.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Powerful quote from @maketheroadnj.bsky.social:
"We want to make sure we are not forgetting the conversation about the data infrastructure, the backbone, that holds up ICE … The state should not be giving one dollar to Palantir.”
"We want to make sure we are not forgetting the conversation about the data infrastructure, the backbone, that holds up ICE … The state should not be giving one dollar to Palantir.”
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“State violence can dehumanize us all. But you aren’t powerless.”
A powerful new LA Times op-ed by our Co-Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado, on how repeated cruelty breeds numbness — and why solidarity and compassion restore our shared humanity.
https://lat.ms/49Nj9iP
A powerful new LA Times op-ed by our Co-Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado, on how repeated cruelty breeds numbness — and why solidarity and compassion restore our shared humanity.
https://lat.ms/49Nj9iP
January 29, 2026 at 6:08 PM
“State violence can dehumanize us all. But you aren’t powerless.”
A powerful new LA Times op-ed by our Co-Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado, on how repeated cruelty breeds numbness — and why solidarity and compassion restore our shared humanity.
https://lat.ms/49Nj9iP
A powerful new LA Times op-ed by our Co-Executive Director, Pablo Alvarado, on how repeated cruelty breeds numbness — and why solidarity and compassion restore our shared humanity.
https://lat.ms/49Nj9iP
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Palantir is spending its revenue from ICE contracts on our elected officials.
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
Who takes Palantir’s money? A new tracker finds out.
Who takes Palantir's money? A new tracker finds out.
ICE relies on the firm for deportation tech—and its PAC pays it forward to Congress.
www.motherjones.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Palantir is spending its revenue from ICE contracts on our elected officials.
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
The top 5 leaderboard:
1. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas)- $286,801
2. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)- $148,500
3. Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.)- $134,600
4. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.)- $106,051
5. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)- $105,350
This is a full-on violation of our rights.
The government cannot break into our homes without a judicial warrant. To meet its self-imposed, cruel deportation quotas, the Trump administration is flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment and allowing ICE to terrorize our communities in the process.
The government cannot break into our homes without a judicial warrant. To meet its self-imposed, cruel deportation quotas, the Trump administration is flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment and allowing ICE to terrorize our communities in the process.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 3:50 PM
This is a full-on violation of our rights.
The government cannot break into our homes without a judicial warrant. To meet its self-imposed, cruel deportation quotas, the Trump administration is flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment and allowing ICE to terrorize our communities in the process.
The government cannot break into our homes without a judicial warrant. To meet its self-imposed, cruel deportation quotas, the Trump administration is flagrantly violating the Fourth Amendment and allowing ICE to terrorize our communities in the process.
NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE!
Tell Congress to vote NO and stop funding ICE. We've seen agents terrorize and invade our communities, go after citizens and non-citizens alike, and detain and deport our neighbors. actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
Tell Congress to vote NO and stop funding ICE. We've seen agents terrorize and invade our communities, go after citizens and non-citizens alike, and detain and deport our neighbors. actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
Urge Senators and Members to Reject ICE Funding!
We need you to take action NOW! Coming into the New Year the House and Senate are proposing to expand immigration detention. Currently the proposal on the table includes funding to detain an additiona...
actionnetwork.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:09 PM
NO MORE FUNDING FOR ICE!
Tell Congress to vote NO and stop funding ICE. We've seen agents terrorize and invade our communities, go after citizens and non-citizens alike, and detain and deport our neighbors. actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
Tell Congress to vote NO and stop funding ICE. We've seen agents terrorize and invade our communities, go after citizens and non-citizens alike, and detain and deport our neighbors. actionnetwork.org/letters/reje...
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As CLASP releases “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” a new timeline showing how the Trump Admin remade the federal landscape in 2025.
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The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers | CLASP
CLASP’s new timeline, “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” provides a clear illustration of just some of the ways that President Trump and his administrat...
www.clasp.org
January 20, 2026 at 6:12 PM
As CLASP releases “The First Year of Trump’s Second Term: Harms to Children, Families, and Workers,” a new timeline showing how the Trump Admin remade the federal landscape in 2025.
www.clasp.org/publications...
www.clasp.org/publications...
The removal of immigrants without a criminal record has gone up more than SIX times.
Trump's mass deportation agenda isn't public safety—it's chaos and trauma inflicted on everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump's mass deportation agenda isn't public safety—it's chaos and trauma inflicted on everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Many People Has Trump Deported So Far?
In the first year of the Trump administration, it was the nature of the deportations, rather than their number, that changed the most, an analysis of government data reveals.
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The removal of immigrants without a criminal record has gone up more than SIX times.
Trump's mass deportation agenda isn't public safety—it's chaos and trauma inflicted on everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump's mass deportation agenda isn't public safety—it's chaos and trauma inflicted on everyone. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
While Big Tech CEO's like Alex Karp rake in billions, our communities are being tracked, spied, and detained on behalf of their technologies.
Palantir is profiting from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism. Read how their technology powers ICE raids⬇️
Palantir is profiting from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism. Read how their technology powers ICE raids⬇️
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
While Big Tech CEO's like Alex Karp rake in billions, our communities are being tracked, spied, and detained on behalf of their technologies.
Palantir is profiting from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism. Read how their technology powers ICE raids⬇️
Palantir is profiting from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism. Read how their technology powers ICE raids⬇️
"One of the citizens whom agents put in a chokehold was 16 years old."
Yet another example of why ICE and Border Patrol agents do not belong in our communities. The harm and violence have gone unchecked for far too long—and the people now demand accountability.
Yet another example of why ICE and Border Patrol agents do not belong in our communities. The harm and violence have gone unchecked for far too long—and the people now demand accountability.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government…
www.propublica.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
"One of the citizens whom agents put in a chokehold was 16 years old."
Yet another example of why ICE and Border Patrol agents do not belong in our communities. The harm and violence have gone unchecked for far too long—and the people now demand accountability.
Yet another example of why ICE and Border Patrol agents do not belong in our communities. The harm and violence have gone unchecked for far too long—and the people now demand accountability.
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$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023.
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
Data Center Watch Report Q2 2025 UPDATE — Data Center Watch
www.datacenterwatch.org
January 6, 2026 at 5:45 PM
$98 billion in planned AI data center development was derailed in a single quarter last year by community organizing and pushback, more than all disruptions tracked since 2023.
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
www.datacenterwatch.org/q22025
From @maketheroadnj.bsky.social: “The tragic loss of Jean Wilson Brutus is a prime example of the deadly reality of immigrant detentions. This loss reverberates far beyond detention walls: it sends a message to immigrant families across the country that their lives are treated as expendable.”
Advocates, activists, and community leaders demand immediate independent inquiry and answers related to the death of Jean Wilson Brutus, a community member detained at Delaney Hall earlier this month and transported to University Hospital on December 12th.
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
From @maketheroadnj.bsky.social: “The tragic loss of Jean Wilson Brutus is a prime example of the deadly reality of immigrant detentions. This loss reverberates far beyond detention walls: it sends a message to immigrant families across the country that their lives are treated as expendable.”
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As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
As data centers pop up in every corner of the country, their electricity demands are spiking rates for everyone.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
But why on Earth should you be covering the electricity bill of a billion-dollar tech giant?
This week, @warren.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov, & I are asking big tech just that.
At 16 years old, Joel, like thousands of other young migrants, has become a target of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Dissolving long-established protections aimed to help young people like him isn't safety—it's cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
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Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
At 16 years old, Joel, like thousands of other young migrants, has become a target of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Dissolving long-established protections aimed to help young people like him isn't safety—it's cruelty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/n...
From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse.
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Dirty data centers will drive up our utility bills • Nevada Current
If your family is anything like mine, you dread opening up your NV Energy bill every month. Over the summer and fall, I thought I was seeing double; my bill was so high. All across the country, rate p...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
From @maketheroadnv.bsky.social: All across the country, rate payers are facing eye-popping increases. What is to blame for the sudden increase in costs? Big tech’s AI-fueled data center frenzy—and it’s about to get even worse.
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“I don’t know how I’m going to explain it to my daughter one day — that she got pepper-sprayed on our way to buy Pampers and milk.”
The Post identified cases of U.S. citizens being targeted by immigration enforcement agents that are documented in video and witness accounts. Lawyers and community leaders said there are many others involving people too frightened to come forward.
The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown
Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”
www.washingtonpost.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“I don’t know how I’m going to explain it to my daughter one day — that she got pepper-sprayed on our way to buy Pampers and milk.”
Help us reunite Allan & Matthew! Allan is an LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was wrongfully detained by ICE following his marriage-based green card interview at 26 Federal Plaza.
Over 1,200 New Yorkers have signed the petition demanding his immediate release. Help us #FreeAllan: bit.ly/FreeAllan
Over 1,200 New Yorkers have signed the petition demanding his immediate release. Help us #FreeAllan: bit.ly/FreeAllan
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Help us reunite Allan & Matthew! Allan is an LGBTQ+ asylum seeker who was wrongfully detained by ICE following his marriage-based green card interview at 26 Federal Plaza.
Over 1,200 New Yorkers have signed the petition demanding his immediate release. Help us #FreeAllan: bit.ly/FreeAllan
Over 1,200 New Yorkers have signed the petition demanding his immediate release. Help us #FreeAllan: bit.ly/FreeAllan
This is an example of what those in power can do to protect their communities, especially immigrant communities facing this administration's harsh enforcement policies.
No one should fear that a routine court check-in, school drop-off, or emergency hospital visit can result in being deported.
No one should fear that a routine court check-in, school drop-off, or emergency hospital visit can result in being deported.
Breaking News: Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois signed a bill that restricts immigration enforcement near state courthouses and makes it easier to sue ICE agents.
Illinois Governor Signs Bill Imposing New Limits on Immigration Enforcement
The measure restricts immigration arrests around state courthouses. Republicans have criticized the law and suggested it would face legal challenges.
nyti.ms
December 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is an example of what those in power can do to protect their communities, especially immigrant communities facing this administration's harsh enforcement policies.
No one should fear that a routine court check-in, school drop-off, or emergency hospital visit can result in being deported.
No one should fear that a routine court check-in, school drop-off, or emergency hospital visit can result in being deported.
While billionaires like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp embed their technology into our government and profit from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism, communities are being detained, disappeared, and deported—all while footing the bill.
Palantir’s software is helping ICE track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster, according to federal procurement filings and interviews with people who have knowledge of the project.
How Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
“The truly progressive position on immigration” is “extreme skepticism,” says Alex Karp, a longtime Democrat and the data-mining company’s chief executive.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
While billionaires like Peter Thiel and Alex Karp embed their technology into our government and profit from surveillance, militarization, and authoritarianism, communities are being detained, disappeared, and deported—all while footing the bill.
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As DACA endures unprecedented attacks, Congress has now reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bipartisan solution that provides long-overdue stability and permanent protections for immigrant youth.
December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As DACA endures unprecedented attacks, Congress has now reintroduced the DREAM Act, a bipartisan solution that provides long-overdue stability and permanent protections for immigrant youth.
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We, the #BraveOfUS – Americans of all races, genders and backgrounds – are joining together to march, protect our neighbors, and keep our loved ones safe in the place we call home.
November 14, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We, the #BraveOfUS – Americans of all races, genders and backgrounds – are joining together to march, protect our neighbors, and keep our loved ones safe in the place we call home.
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All across the country, immigrants & U.S. citizens alike are being approached by armed, masked men on the streets, violently mistreated, put in handcuffs, & put in the back of unmarked vehicles. Look out for your neighbors, to keep one another safe. Know your rights & stay informed. #NoSecretPolice
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
All across the country, immigrants & U.S. citizens alike are being approached by armed, masked men on the streets, violently mistreated, put in handcuffs, & put in the back of unmarked vehicles. Look out for your neighbors, to keep one another safe. Know your rights & stay informed. #NoSecretPolice
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“There is a total lack of oversight...The lack of communication and lack of access to counsel for people in these sites is a way of preventing oversight, transparency and accountability.”
--Paige Austin, attorney at @maketheroadny.bsky.social
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--Paige Austin, attorney at @maketheroadny.bsky.social
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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“There is a total lack of oversight...The lack of communication and lack of access to counsel for people in these sites is a way of preventing oversight, transparency and accountability.”
--Paige Austin, attorney at @maketheroadny.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
--Paige Austin, attorney at @maketheroadny.bsky.social
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“If Palantir is able to move forward with ImmigrationOS, all of the information that we have given over — that we’ve trusted the state with — could be used to separate families,” said Nedia Morsy of @maketheroadnj.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/10/27/p...
Immigrant Advocates Are Targeting Tech — and Palantir Is Public Enemy No. 1
Activists and immigration advocates are seeking to bring Palantir's elusive digital infrastructure into the public eye and are urging states to divest from the company.
documentedny.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
“If Palantir is able to move forward with ImmigrationOS, all of the information that we have given over — that we’ve trusted the state with — could be used to separate families,” said Nedia Morsy of @maketheroadnj.bsky.social. documentedny.com/2025/10/27/p...
"Now, as President Donald Trump rolls out increased immigration arrests, detentions and deportations, migrants displaced by hurricanes, floods and droughts are at risk of being sent back to places hollowed out by climate change."
To understand how climate change may have influenced migrants’ journeys, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Documented analyzed more than nine million records of people apprehended by U.S.
'Nothing to Go Back to': How Climate Change Is Driving Migrants From Their Homes to NYC - Documented
New data shows how climate disasters correspond with migration to the United States.
documentedny.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
"Now, as President Donald Trump rolls out increased immigration arrests, detentions and deportations, migrants displaced by hurricanes, floods and droughts are at risk of being sent back to places hollowed out by climate change."
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Since October 1, 2024, at least 21 people have died in ICE custody.
This is what happens when an immigration system values quotas over human lives. It’s unacceptable — and we refuse to stay silent.
https://bit.ly/4nfuFXJ
This is what happens when an immigration system values quotas over human lives. It’s unacceptable — and we refuse to stay silent.
https://bit.ly/4nfuFXJ
2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants
Nearly all of ICE’s detention centers are run by privately owned companies and have been criticized for overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions.
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Since October 1, 2024, at least 21 people have died in ICE custody.
This is what happens when an immigration system values quotas over human lives. It’s unacceptable — and we refuse to stay silent.
https://bit.ly/4nfuFXJ
This is what happens when an immigration system values quotas over human lives. It’s unacceptable — and we refuse to stay silent.
https://bit.ly/4nfuFXJ