ICE Expands Nationwide Surveillance Infrastructure for Mass Deportations

From Palantir’s ICM to IRS taxpayer data, ICE’s advanced tools target undocumented immigrants with unprecedented reach.

WASHINGTON — ICE has consolidated an array of databases and surveillance technologies to identify, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants. The agency’s use of the Investigative Case Management (ICM) system, alongside data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Flock Safety’s license plate reader network, and other tools, reflects a sweeping approach to immigration enforcement that has sparked widespread concern over privacy and due process.