REMIGRATION: FWIW ICE isn’t randomly picking up ‘brown’ people. They’re using tech from Palantir to track illegals via, cell, credit card, and even Uber. They know where all of the criminal aliens are, just a matter of picking them up. pic.twitter.com/U70tYM9Gle
— @amuse (@amuse) October 24, 2025
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has partnered with Palantir Technologies—a Denver-based software company co-founded by billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel—to use artificial intelligence and data mining to identify, track, and deport suspected noncitizens. Palantir is slated to deliver a prototype of the ImmigrationOS platform by September 25, 2025, with the contract running through September 2027. ICE is paying Palantir $30 million for the platform.
Similar to Palantir’s other systems, ImmigrationOS will pull together vast amounts of data, detect patterns, and flag individuals who meet certain criteria, raising concerns about potential impacts on civil liberties in America. Those concerns are amplified by the revelation that Stephen Miller, the Trump administration’s chief architect of immigration policy, holds a substantial financial stake in Palantir—underscoring the potential conflicts of interest in the government’s embrace of the company’s technology.
The plan, first reported by Business Insider, has triggered lawsuits from privacy and labor rights advocates and raises serious concerns about accuracy, justice, and civil rights. For its part, Palantir says it only builds the tools, not the rules. However, the architecture of an AI system—how it integrates data, flags individuals, and triggers action—is a form of policymaking. Designing a system like ImmigrationOS means deciding which data is included, what prompts alerts, and what gets overlooked.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-immigrationos-palantir-ai-track-immigrants/