CAMPAIGNERS have demanded that the government end contracts with a tech company playing a key role in US President Donald Trump’s drive to deport migrants.

Palantir has been hired to oversee Britain's post-Brexit border data, collating information on the transit of goods and customs from December 31.

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said yesterday that the company has also been awarded lucrative contracts with the NHS and the Ministry of Defence.

CAAT’s Andrew Smith said: “Palantir is a disgraceful company. 

“It has played a complicit role in a cruel and brutal deportation strategy that has split families and targeted vulnerable people. 

“The Trump administration’s authoritarian policies and rhetoric have caused a great deal of pain while fuelling the worst instincts of racists and extremists.

“The British government is far from innocent when it comes to the punishment of migrant communities. 

“Its own role in implementing hostile environment policies led to the Windrush scandal. 

“This is all the more reason why it should break with the past by taking a stand and making clear that there will be no more public money for Trump’s deportation profiteers.”