Stephen Miller Owns Stock in Notorious ICE Collaborator Palantir
Stephen Miller, a senior advisor to President Donald Trump, is well known as one of the most extreme anti-immigrant voices in the administration. But he's not just a ghoul driven by far-right ideology to rid the U.S. of anyone who's not white. Miller also appears to be making some money in the process, thanks to his stock ownership in a company that's helping the U.S. government rip apart immigrant families through deportation.
Miller owns anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000 in Palantir stock, according to newly released financial disclosure forms posted online and first reported by the Project on Government Oversight. Federal financial disclosure forms only require ranges to be given rather than exact holdings.
Palantir won a $30 million contract in April to deliver something called the Immigration Lifecycle Operating System (ImmigrationOS) by September, which is supposed to give the U.S. government 'near real-time visibility' on immigrants to manage deportations, according to Wired. Palantir also has lucrative contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, with the firm chalking up more than $1 billion in new federal contracts since Trump took power again in January, according to the New York Times. And it's those contracts that will raise plenty of eyebrows among people who still care when government employees potentially benefit financially from their positions.
Miller has been one of the most extreme voices in the White House during the push to accelerate deportations, promising to round up at least 3,000 people per day. The 39-year-old was reportedly frustrated last month when federal immigration agents weren't meeting their quotas and expressed disgust that ICE was focusing on violent criminals. Miller told agents to go visit 7-Eleven and Home Depot stores and just round up whoever they could find, according to the Wall Street Journal. And helping find people is what Palantir does best as a data analytics company.
New videos showing what Miller and his underlings are doing to hard-working people in the U.S. go viral every day. As just one example, masked men abducted Narciso Barranco, a father of three Marines, in Santa Ana when he was working his job as a landscaper. The men can be seen beating Barranco as he's on the ground.
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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 4:45 PMThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security posted video claiming Barranco 'assaulted' agents with a weed wacker, but the video doesn't show that at all. Instead, anyone with eyes can clearly see Barranco just carrying his weed wacker and running away from the masked men, one of whom has drawn his gun, and another appears to be spraying Barranco with a chemical agent.
He ASSAULTED federal law enforcement with a WEED WHACKER. Perhaps the mainstream media would like our officers to stand there and be mowed down instead of defending themselves?
What a completely slanted portrayal of what actually happened. https://t.co/Zf10PgjEdY pic.twitter.com/dRYnLuPK8o
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) June 23, 2025It's not clear how DHS could lie so blatantly without an ounce of shame, but Miller echoed the false claims on X, writing, 'ICE officers are being subjected to extreme violence and deadly assaults on a daily basis as democrats wage their sinister campaign of destruction and hate.'
It's guys like Barranco that Miller and Palantir are trying to round up, all using shiny new technology. Palantir collects enormous amounts of data on Americans, and there have been questions about what sensitive private information it may have been able to access thanks to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) under Elon Musk. DOGE has been rummaging through the government's information pipes, hitting only the smallest speed bumps in court along the way. Even when DOGE is found to be breaking the law, a higher court usually swoops in to let them do whatever they like, like when the conservative U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled DOGE could access Social Security data.
The new disclosure forms also show Miller owns stock in Amazon, Intel, Crowdstrike, GE Aerospace, Micron, Super Micro, Microsoft, and Spotify, among other companies. Miller's wife, Katie Miller, also holds stock in Spotify and Amazon, as well as stock in tech companies like Alphabet and Amazon. Katie Miller worked as the head spokesperson for DOGE before Musk formally exited his government role. She left with Musk to work at his private companies.
At least 11 other White House staff own stock in Palantir, according to the Project on Government Oversight, including the Chief Information Officer Gregory Barbaccia, who previously worked at Palantir for a decade. The White House reportedly told POGO that it 'has confirmed to White House ethics officials that [Miller] has and will continue to recuse from participating in official matters that could affect those stocks.'
Palantir first went public in 2020, and its stock is up over 88% so far this year, riding high on its association with the Trump regime and the brutality that guys like Miller have unleashed on immigrant families. ICE is holding a record 59,000 people right now, according to a new report from CBS News, and less than 30% have been convicted of crimes.
It's not just opponents of the president's agenda who are concerned about what Palantir is doing with the U.S. government. When news broke that the company was working hand-in-glove with all these federal agencies, even some Republicans started to get nervous about the 1984-style surveillance that's happening.
'It's dangerous,' Rep. Warren Davidson, a Republican from Ohio, recently told Semafor. 'When you start combining all those data points on an individual into one database, it really essentially creates a digital ID. And it's a power that history says will eventually be abused.'
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