US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Three related Palantir systems for ICE: (1) ICM, case management, $139.3m contract from 2022 renewed sole-source, combined deal reportedly exceeding $145m; (2) ImmigrationOS, a ~$30m no-bid 2025 contract modification providing 'near real-time visibility into instances of self-deportation' and managing the 'end to end immigration lifecycle'; (3) ELITE, an app generating deportation-target dossiers with a confidence score (out of 100) on a target's address. In M-J-M-A v Wamsley (D. Oregon), ICE officers confirmed under oath on 2 Dec 2025 that ELITE was used to identify arrest targets during Oregon raids driven by daily arrest quotas -- sworn testimony, stronger evidence than surrounding reporting. 404 Media reported ELITE drawing on HHS/Medicaid data; Palantir disputes this characterisation as misleading. A CMS-ICE data-sharing agreement exists; a preliminary injunction (Aug 2025) briefly blocked sharing in 20 states before a Dec 2025 ruling allowed some sharing to resume pending the case. Same vendor as this site's existing Palantir Gotham entry for German state police, where a Federal Constitutional Court judgment constrains automated analysis -- the US deployment has essentially the inverse legal position: no court constraint, sole-source contracts, and an operational target list rather than an investigative link chart.

Update, November 2026. The ACLU's article of 24 March 2026 says Palantir has run ICE's Investigative Case Management (ICM) since 2014, so the 2022 date above refers to the current contract rather than the start of the relationship; the sole-source arrangement has "ballooned to over $145 million" per USAspending and allowed development "through at least April 2026". It dates the roughly $30 million ImmigrationOS contract to April 2025, with a prototype due on 25 September 2025 and the contract running to September 2027, and says that ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification and Targeting for Enforcement) is described in a user guide obtained by 404 Media as used for "identifying and prioritizing high-value targets". The article also reports testimony, as covered by the Guardian on 13 March 2026, in which ICE agents said the app counted people with an "immigration nexus", a category that reportedly includes naturalised citizens; no court ruling on Palantir's ICE work was reported in the article. FedScoop reported on 28 January 2026 that DHS's AI Use Case Inventory lists three Palantir products among ICE's newly added use cases; DHS classed ELITE as "presumed high-impact but determined not high-impact", stating that its outputs "are limited to normalized address data"; this is DHS's own characterisation.