DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Plaintiffs allege in the filing that agents had a practice of intimidating protesters and observers. They did this, the filing says, by doing drive-bys of the observers’ homes.
"The government is treating people who exercise their First Amendment rights and seek to hold it accountable as criminal suspects, and that's what we're asking the court to stop,” says JoAnna Suriani, an attorney at Protect Democracy who is representing ICE observers in the case.
A spokesperson for DHS calls the case “meritless” and says that “the underlying lawsuit is based on the lie that there is a database of ‘domestic terrorists’ run by DHS.” Palantir did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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