Grand Theft America / Receipt power-2025-04-17-053
ICE pays Palantir $30 million to build a deportation targeting engine
ICE awards Palantir a $30M contract to build ImmigrationOS, a platform to streamline target selection, apprehension, and self-deportation tracking by joining government records.
Verified through 2026-08-26Source: americanimmigrationcouncil.orgCorrections: none logged
What happened
ICE awards Palantir a $30M contract to build ImmigrationOS, a platform to streamline target selection, apprehension, and self-deportation tracking by joining government records.
Why it matters
Linking identity, biometric and commercial data expands the government's ability to identify, monitor and act against people at scale. It is tracked here under “Fuse government data into one system”; the classification describes the documented institutional risk, not a claim about motive.
Receipt details
- Phase 1
- Build a surveillance machine
- Fuse government data into one system
