ICE's Deportation Machine Just Got a $6.7M Data Refill
New procurement records show ICE plans to pay LexisNexis $6.7 million for continued access to its LexID and Accurint tools, which mine over 82 billion records to locate people. The data is meant to feed straight into Palantir's platform, including ELITE, the system 404 Media exposed in January that maps out neighborhoods for deportation raids. The deal comes as ICE arrested more than 51,000 people in July alone, many snatched at airports, showing just how industrialized America's surveillance-to-deportation pipeline has become.
Nothing says 'due process' like outsourcing your manhunt to a data broker and a Peter Thiel algorithm.