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A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)\u2019s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump\u2019s second term. <\/p>\n

The , released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).<\/p>\n

\u201cA key sector of tech funded by venture capital has positioned itself as visioning and directing the war machine and asserts that AI is vital to US national security and the economy,\u201d the report states. This has facilitated increasingly close ties between \u201ctech oligarchs\u201d and the government, as seen in the case of Peter Thiel \u2013 co-founder of Palantir \u2013 and Elon Musk, among others. <\/p>\n

The report tracked ICE and CBP contracts with 11 surveillance technology companies from 2013 to 2026, and found that funding awarded to these firms doubled from 2024 to 2025 to over $310 million, and spiked further in 2026 to $513 million. This was particularly driven by contracts to Palantir, for surveillance technology, and defense company Anduril, for border towers, drones, and related AI surveillance systems. <\/p>\n

Importantly, the report also says that DHS \u201cdoes not simply purchase technologies once they have been developed,\u201d but \u201cactively helps shape the innovation ecosystem that produces the surveillance and enforcement technologies it seeks to deploy.\u201d It does this through a billion-dollar incubator that funds research and partnerships with companies as they develop their surveillance technology \u2013 helping them become major surveillance tech companies. <\/p>\n

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The report maps out the \u201ctop 10 categories of surveillance technology\u201d used by DHS, ICE, and CBP to \u201ctarget, criminalize, and deport\u201d immigrants. These include data brokers \u2013 companies like LexisNexis that sell data on millions of people to customers including ICE, which then uses the data to \u201ccircumvent sanctuary city protections.\u201d Then, data analytics companies, first among them Palantir, sort and analyze the data. <\/p>\n

The report calls Palantir \u201cthe backbone of ICE data surveillance.\u201d Palantir, a military contractor that was founded through CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, has developed both ImmigrationOS and ELITE, software platforms that track migrants and map neighborhoods and potential deportation targets. <\/p>\n

The report states that since the start of Trump\u2019s second term, Palantir has received over $1.8 billion in government funding, including $81 million from ICE in 2025 and $97 million from ICE in 2026 \u2013 followed by a $1 billion purchase agreement this year. ImmigrationOS and ELITE were both developed under ICE contracts with Palantir. <\/p>\n

Other crucial surveillance technology used by ICE and DHS includes web scraping and social media surveillance; facial recognition and biometric identification; technology that surveils vehicles and drivers; cellphone tracking and location data; and drone surveillance. Each of these mechanisms entails lucrative contracts with technology companies. <\/p>\n

Applications like Mobile Fortify, used by ICE and CBP agents to take pictures of people they arrest and check their identity against an AI-based database, have received scrutiny recently due to their high rate of error, as well as their use against legal observers. But DHS has admitted that MobileFortify is just one of many, and that it uses more than 10 AI-based facial recognition tools. <\/p>\n

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