Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to pay LexisNexis millions more dollars for continued access to data it can feed into a Palantir platform, according to newly published procurement records. The data is to help, among other sections, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), the part of ICE focused on deportation.
The documents provide some more insight into the sort of information ICE intends to use Palantir to process. In January,
404 Media revealed the existence
of ELITE, a system Palantir made for ICE that helps the agency find which neighborhoods to target by bringing together data from private suppliers and government agencies.
The news comes as ICE arrested
more than 51,000 people
in July, many of
those at airports
.
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The data is to support “all aspects of ICE screening and vetting, lead development, and criminal analysis activities,” one of
the documents says
. That also includes identifying what ICE perceives as fraud “before crime and fraud can materialize and detecting and reporting elements of crimes involving the exploitation or attempts to exploit the immigration and customs laws of the United States.” ICE anticipates paying LexisNexis $6.7 million, according to the records.
LexisNexis
has long provided data
to ICE
across multiple administrations
. In this new procurement record, ICE is looking to continue access to “to LexID and Accurint Virtual Crime Center,” according to a listing posted along with the document. LexID and Accurint are LexisNexis tools that take a wealth of data — “over 82 billion public and proprietary records from more than 10,000 sources”
according to the company’s website
— and link them together to help law enforcement locate people.
A screenshot of the document.
The document suggests ICE wants to pair th
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