“No other supplier could meet these deadlines to have the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver a prototype in less than six months,” Ice in the document said.
The ICE document does not specify the data sources that Palantir would draw to Power Immigrationos. However, he says that Palantant could “configure” the case management system that she provided with ice Since 2014.
Palantant worked at various others Government agencies in 2007. Aside from the ice, she worked with the American army, Air Force, the Navy, an internal internal service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As indicated by Wired, Palantant is currently Help the so-called Elon Musk Government Department of Effectiveness (DOGE) Build a brand new “Mega API” at the IRS which could seek recordings in all the different databases that the agency maintains.
Last week, 404 media reported That a recent version of the Palantant case management system for ice allows agents to search for people based on “hundreds of different and very specific categories”, including the way a person has entered the country, their current legal status and their country of origin. It also includes the color of a person's hair and eyes, whether scars or tattoos, and data on the readers of the license plate, which would provide detailed location data on the place where this person travels by car.
These features have been mentioned in a government assessment of privacy published in 2016And it is not clear what new information could have been integrated into the case management system in the past four years.
The allocation of $ 30 million this week is an addition to an existing palanting contract written in 2022, worth around $ 17 million, for work on the ICE case management system. The agency has increased the value of the contract five times before this month; The largest was an increase of $ 19 million in September 2023.
The immigrationos update of the contract was first documented April 11 In a database managed by the government following federal expenses. The input had a description of 248 characters of the change. The five -page document ICE published Thursday, meanwhile, has a more detailed description of the services expected of Palantir for the agency.
Updating the contract occurs while the Trump administration supposes ice cream and other government agencies to considerably degenerate the tactics and the deportation scale of the United States. In recent weeks, the immigration authorities have arrested and held people with student visas and green and expelled cards at least 238 The people of a brutal megaprison in Salvador, some of whom could not speak with a lawyer or have a regular procedure.
As part of its efforts to push people to take off, the DHS at the end of March revoked the temporary conditional release of More than half a million people And demanded that they be self-conforming in about a month, although they were allowed to live in the United States after having fled dangerous or unstable situations in Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela as part of the so-called “CHNV's conditional liberation programs”.
Last week, the Social Security Administration listed More than 6,000 of these people As a death, a tactic intended to end their financial life. Dhs, in the meantime, E-mails sent to an unknown number of people declaring that their parole had been revoked and demanding that they be self-conforming. Several American citizens, including immigration lawyers, have received email.
Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked The Trump administration’s decision to revoke people's authorization to live in the United States as part of CHNV programs. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt called the judge's decision “thug.”
