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New Yorkers Demand that Tom DiNapoli Divest from ICE

Why is New York’s Comptroller investing public pension money in ICE’s deportation apparatus?

Under Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, the New York State Common Retirement Fund didn’t just hold stock in Palantir Technologies; it doubled down on the investment, even as Palantir built the software ICE uses to surveil, track, detain, and deport immigrant families, as well as kill U.S. citizens.

While thousands of New Yorkers put their lives on the line to stop family separations, the state’s pension fund quietly funneled millions into one of ICE’s most powerful technology vendors. Comptroller DiNapoli never publicly justified these decisions and never disclosed why the state doubled down on a company profiting from deportation and detention.

This means that our pension dollars are funding what is happening in Minnesota and the rest of the country. This means that our state is complicit in the terrorizing of our own citizens and immigrant communities.

We will not sit by and allow our pensions to invest in murders, kidnappings, and terrorizing our country with Trump at the helm.

We demand that Tom DiNapoli fully divest from ICE-related entities like Palantir.

If the Comptroller believes investing in a core software that powers ICE is acceptable, he should be willing to defend it in public. To date, he has not. The Comptroller’s silence is not accountability — it’s avoidance.

Our Demands

We, the undersigned, demand:

1. Immediate divestment from Palantir Technologies;
   
   

2. A public accounting of any engagement with ICE-linked companies; and
   
   

3. Pension fund policies that prohibit investing in unlawful detention, deportation, and surveillance profiteering 

New York cannot claim to protect immigrant communities while subsidizing ICE’s current infrastructure.

Public money should serve the public — not contractors that make their living off unlawful surveillance, raids, deportation, and murdering Americans.