Immigration enforcement agency; Palantir's ImmigrationOS client
Agency · United States · Organization
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the U.S. deportation agency, and it buys its tools from the same company that partnered with Israel's military. In April 2025 ICE granted a $30M contract to longtime contractor Palantir Technologies to build 'ImmigrationOS', a surveillance platform, as a modification of an earlier Palantir contract in support of presidential executive orders including EO 14159. According to the contract justification, ImmigrationOS is meant to streamline the identification and apprehension of people prioritized for removal, to track 'self-deportations' with 'near real-time visibility' and to make deportation logistics more efficient; Palantir was expected to deliver a prototype by September 2025. In January 2024 the same Palantir agreed a strategic partnership with the Israel Ministry of Defense to supply technology to help the country's war effort. The software is the same species in both places: a machine for deciding who gets removed.
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ICE granted a $30 million contract to longtime contractor Palantir Technologies to develop 'ImmigrationOS,' a surveillance platform.
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