ImmigrationOS
artifactAI & Compute · Intelligence & Surveillance · Darknet & Cyber
Palantir built a system for ICE that fuses government and private data to supercharge mass deportations.
Who they are
ImmigrationOS, a Palantir tool built under a $30 million ICE contract.
What they do
The engine treats it as the data backbone that accelerates deportations by combining many databases.
How it works
It cross-references federal databases and private data brokers as the successor to earlier Palantir tools; alongside it, Maximus runs the citizen-facing USCIS contact center (a $67.2M order), forming two vendor layers over the same population, and the deal has since ballooned from $30M toward over $145M, while Supreme Court rulings (like Mullin v. Doe) expanded the government's power to end protected status and deport people.
Why it matters
It is the operational engine sorting who gets deported, backed by a growing surveillance backbone and new legal authorization for mass removal.
The engine's record — word for word
Palantir $30M ICE contract. Turbocharges deportation — cross-references federal databases + private data brokers. Successor to Falcon/ICM. **Report #86:** adjacent federal-immigration-throughput layer. Maximus operates the DHS/USCIS Outsourced Contact Center Contract (OC3) — $67.2M BPA call order Nov 2024 extending into late 2025/2026 for managing immigration and citizen inquiries. Two operator-class layers in the immigration apparatus: Palantir's ImmigrationOS (data/kill-chain backend) + Maximus's USCIS OC3 (citizen-facing CRM frontend). Same population, two layers, two vendors. [Live pass Jun 16 2026] Scaling: the ICE 'Icehouse' / Enterprise-Lakehouse sole-source surveillance backbone advances; the Palantir ICM/ImmigrationOS deal has ballooned from $30M toward >$145M (consolidating law-enforcement data into one platform). [Live pass Jun 26 2026] SCOTUS greenlight: Mullin v Doe (6-3, Jun 25) lets the administration END Temporary Protected Status and begin mass-deportation of people living/working legally for years — 'virtually unrestrained power' over TPS. The legal authorization layer for the deportation-sort. [Live pass Jun 27 2026] WATCH (decision imminent, late-Jun/early-Jul 2026): SCOTUS Trump v. Barbara on EO 14160 ('Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship') ending birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause; oral args were Apr 1; birthright currently REMAINS in effect, the EO blocked. The citizenry-membership sort (Selection-Carve-Out #185) — who is born 'in.'
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