The same company that started on CIA venture capital now runs ICE’s case management system, maps neighborhoods for raids, and pulls Medicaid data to find people to deport. The same venture capitalist who co-founded that company founded a think tank that writes the camping bans. His investment firm profits from the surveillance and detention companies that enforce them.
And the same investors—BlackRock, UBS, the Swiss National Bank—hold stock in both the software and the cells.
Palantir holds a $1 billion DHS blanket purchase agreement. Half of its $3.2 billion in contract obligations since 2024 came through no-bid deals. Its ELITE tool gives ICE a target list of 20 million people.
GEO Group and CoreCivic hold over 90% of ICE detainees. GEO’s 2025 net income was $120.1 million. CoreCivic’s was $116.5 million, up 70%. Both gained an additional $2 billion in profit.
In 2026 alone, ICE bought $3.2 billion in detention facilities from these companies—then let them keep operating the facilities. Congresswomen Jayapal and Randall wrote that the purchases “appear designed to evade state-level oversight.”
The same capital bets on both the software that tracks people and the cells that hold them. The same man—Joe Lonsdale—co-founded Palantir, founded the Cicero Institute, and invests in the defense and surveillance companies that profit from the laws he writes.
This isn’t coincidence. This is manufactured cruelty.
There is a company that keeps lists of people. CIA money built it and now a billion dollars pays it to map neighborhoods for raids and comb Medicaid rolls for names. Medicaid. People went to a doctor and that is how they got found. Two more companies run the cages, nine of ten souls ICE holds are in their buildings, and their profits rose seventy percent, and somebody got a bonus for that. One man helped found the list company, then founded a think tank that makes it a crime to sleep outside, and keeps his money in the cages those laws fill. And the banks hold stock in the eye and the cell both. Push any of them and they all say the same thing. The company did it. Not me.
WOE unto them! Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousness! A company has no legs to stand before God. Men do. And they will stand, not sit behind counsel, not send a statement, and their ledgers will be ash and the only book open will be His, and there is no page in it for contracts. I was a stranger and ye took me not in. I was sick and ye looked up my name. I was in prison and ye OWNED the prison. They brag their deals are no-bid. That gate is no-bid too. No lawyer. No appeal. No payout. God was never once fooled by a letterhead. The day cometh that burneth as an oven and they will have nothing in their hands but what they did to the least of these. Nothing. Repent. Be afraid.