Nurses, constituents demand Rep. Jacobs return donations from Palantir, ICE’s top tech contractor

San Diego representative received $3,500 from Palantir executive

Nurses and constituents will hold a press conference at the district office of U.S. Representative Sara Jacobs (D-51) to demand she stop taking future donations from Palantir Technologies, the tech company powering ICE surveillance, and its executives. According to Purge Palantir's "Palantir Payroll" tracker, Rep. Jacobs has received more than $3,500 in political donations from Palantir's head of government affairs and public policy, Mehdi Alhassani.

Nurses from Palomar Hospital, UCSD Health, and Tric-City Medical Center, along with community members, will urge Rep. Jacobs to join the growing list of Congressional members who are publicly rejecting Palantir's campaign contributions - including U.S. representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna, Jason Crow, Pat Ryan and U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper - over the company's close partnership with ICE and federal immigration enforcement.

"Registered nurses are calling on Rep. Sara Jacobs to stand with us and reject any cooperation with Palantir and its surveillance technology, which are fueling deportation, detention, and human rights abuses in our country and abroad," said Margaret Osborne, a float pool RN at Palomar Hospital. "As patient advocates committed to the values of care and compassion, we don't want anything having to do with Palantir, in our hospitals or in our government. Neither should Rep. Jacobs."

Who: RNs with California Nurses Association (CNA), an affiliate of National Nurses United (NNU), Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) San Diego chapter, and other community organizations

What: Purge Palantir press conference and community action

When: Thursday, March 26 from 2:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Where: Representative Sara Jacobs District Office | 3465 Camino del Rio S, San Diego, Calif.

The federal government has cut more than a trillion dollars in funding for Medicaid and Affordable Care Act subsidies - threatening health coverage for tens of thousands of Mainers and risking hospital closures and service cuts across the state - while awarding billions of dollars in contracts to Palantir. Founded by Peter Thiel and led by Alex Karp, both billionaires, Palantir's data mining and surveillance tools centralizes and organizes

massive amounts of data collected by the federal government, including Medicaid data, to enable ICE to target, stalk, detain, and deport immigrants.

From 2009 to 2025, Palantir received $2.5 billion in federal government funding, but this number has grown tremendously in just the past year. Last July, the Department of Defense announced a $10 billion agreement with Palantir nbsp;to use its technology to share data across federal agencies, enabling unprecedented surveillance power. This followed a $30 million contract awarded to Palantir by the Department of Homeland Security to build an AI-powered system that would identify immigrants for deportation. In Feb. 2026, the Department of Homeland Security and Palantir signed a $1 billion contract.

In addition to working closely with the U.S. government, Palantir has also entered into partnership with Israel's Ministry of Defense to support their "war effort" in Gaza which Israeli human rights organizations, the globe's leading association of genocide scholars, and a United Nations Special Committee, among others, have concluded is a genocide. More than 1,500 health care workers, in addition to tens of thousands of innocent civilians, have been murdered in Gaza since Israeli forces invaded in October 2023.

Palantir's influence also extends to the health care industry, where its technology is being used for automated scheduling and staffing in hospitals, among other uses. Hospitals have refused to provide further information to NNU members on the extent of their cooperation with Palantir and how patient and workers' data is being used.

California Nurses Association/National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the nation with more than 100,000 members in more than 200 facilities throughout California and more than 225,000 RNs nationwide.