Ice pays $ 30 million Palaantir to build a “immigration” surveillance platform
“No other seller can meet these timeframes to provide infrastructure to meet this urgent need and provide a prototype in less than six months,” Ice says.
The ICE document takes Palantir data to migrate. However, he says Palantier can “configure” the file management system it has provided to ICE since 2014.
Palantier did his job in various government agencies in early 2007. Aside from the ice, it has cooperated with the US Army, Air Force, Navy, domestic revenue services and federal research office. As reported by Wired, Palaantir is currently helping the so -called Elon Musk State Department (DOGE) to create a completely new Mega API in the IRS that can search for records in all different databases that the agency maintains.
Last week, 404 media reported that the recent version of the Palantir case management system for ICE allowed representatives to search for people on the basis of “hundreds of different categories, very specific”, including how a person entered the country, their current legal status and their country of origin. It also includes the color of the person’s hair and eye, whether wounds or tattoos, and their permission reader data, which provides detailed location data about that person’s travel location by car.
These features are listed in an assessment of government privacy published in 2016, and it is unclear what new information may have been integrated into the file management system over the past four years.
The $ 30 million award this week, in addition to a Palantir contract in 2022, is originally about $ 17 million to work in the ICE file management system. The agency has increased the value of the contract five times before this month. The biggest increase was $ 19 million in September 2023.
The migration of the contract was first registered on April 11 in a government database that tracks federal costs. The input had a description of 248 characters of change. Meanwhile, the five -page ice released on Thursday has detailed descriptions of the expected Palaantir services for the Agency.
The contract is updated as the Trump administration is destroying the ICE and other government agencies to exacerbate the tactics and scale of US exile. In recent weeks, immigration officials have arrested and arrested people with student visas and green cards, deporting at least 238 people to a brutal megapyrison in El Salvador, some of whom have failed to speak with a lawyer or have a temporary process.
As part of his efforts to move people towards themselves, DHS in late March, temporarily revoked more than half of the million people and called for them to refrain from for about a month, despite living in the United States after escaping dangerous or unrestricted situations, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Last week, the Social Security Office cited more than 6,000 of these dead, a tactic to end their financial life. Meanwhile, DHS sent emails to an unknown number of people who announced that their temporary was canceled and demanded. Several American citizens, including immigration lawyers, received email.
On Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s action to revoke people’s permission to live in the United States under CHNV programs. A White House spokesman Caroline Levit called the judge a “rogue”.
