Palantir and ICE

WIRED reported, from ICE’s published contract justification, that ICE was paying Palantir about $30 million for “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting, under a new platform called the Immigration Lifecycle Operating System, or ImmigrationOS. A prototype was due by 25 September 2025 and the contract runs at least through September 2027. [1]

Business Insider gave the exact figure, $29.8 million, and noted that it was an add-on to an existing contract, and that DHS first contracted Palantir to build ICE’s case-management system in 2014. [2]

Amnesty International said in 2020 that Palantir was failing to do human-rights due diligence on its ICE work and cited reports that ICE used Palantir technology to arrest parents and caregivers of migrant children in 2017 and to plan the 2019 Mississippi raids. [1]

Palantir replied at the time that its contracts were with Homeland Security Investigations, ICE’s criminal arm, and did not facilitate civil removals by Enforcement and Removal Operations. The 2025 ImmigrationOS work goes beyond that earlier line. [2]

In February 2026 Karp argued that Palantir’s software is “equally capable of preventing an unconstitutional intrusion into the private lives of citizens by the state,” pointing to permission controls and audit logs that the customer manages. [3][4]