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ICE — Immigration and Customs Enforcement

US Department of Homeland Security component agency for immigration enforcement and customs.

What this is

ICE was created in 2003 as part of the post-9/11 DHS reorganization; it subsumed functions previously handled by Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Customs Service. Two principal divisions — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) — and a detention-operations arm that runs or contracts for immigrant-detention facilities.

Relations

Most often cited alongside

Palantir 21Trump Administration 14Techno-Authoritariani… 13Rolling Coup 12Mass Surveillance 11The Accountability Gap 10Data Unification 8Pete Hegseth 8ICE — Immi…

Edge weight = number of briefs and sources citing both. Amber = a typed relation exists.

Receipts timeline · 76

  1. The Daily — Tue September 22, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  2. The Daily — Mon September 21, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  3. ICE signs contracts worth up to $7.3B to expand detention in 5 states [Source]
  4. From Records to Raids: The Questionable Legality of ICE's Palantir ELITE System [Source]
  5. The Daily — Thu September 10, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  6. Denver sues to block armed ICE agents from polling places [Source]
  7. Rare charges against agent highlight broader retreat from ICE shooting probes [Source]
  8. Glass Between Them — California City ICE facility bars family contact visits [Source]
  9. The Daily — Weds August 26, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  10. Nine Months at Sea, One Traffic Stop — the father of a deployed Navy sailor detained and released [Source]
  11. No Denial, So No Case — an ICE officer's extradition dispute found unripe [Source]
  12. The Lamp Turns Around [Source]
  13. The Daily — Fri August 21, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  14. Dying as the Crossings Fall — 19 migrant deaths in Pima County in July, deadliest month in two years [Source]
  15. ICE Comes for the Harvest — MOFGA warns Maine farmers of anticipated ICE raids, H-2A focus [Source]
  16. Blocked at the Detention Door — a court narrows Colorado's inspection reach at the Aurora GEO ICE facility [Source]
  17. The Suit Became the Subpoena — DHS asks for the names in Maine plaintiffs' Signal groups [Source]
  18. The Daily — Wed August 19, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  19. The Daily — Fri August 14, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  20. HHS plans nationwide biometric sponsor vetting network linked to Palantir [Source]
  21. US government spied on anti-ICE protesters, unions and non-profits, court records show [Source]
  22. The Daily — Thurs August 13, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  23. The Daily — Weds August 12, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  24. ICE seeks expanded LexisNexis investigative data access with Palantir integration [Source]
  25. The Daily — Tue August 11, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  26. Give Palantir up to $244M through 2028, says internal Defense Department memo [Source]
  27. Civil rights groups protest Palantir surveillance software in Honolulu [Source]
  28. AP Exclusive: ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks [Source]
  29. The Daily — Mon August 10, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  30. Kurdish hunger striker says ICE force-feeding 'mentally broke me' [Source]
  31. Security News This Week: Flock's Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed [Source]
  32. ICE DNA collection into the FBI's CODIS criminal database (Georgetown Law analysis) [Source]
  33. The Daily — Tuesday July 28, 2026 DAILY [Daily] [Brief on Substack]
  34. Trump administration asks Supreme Court to clear the way for new mail-in voting restrictions [Source]
  35. Gallego donates Palantir cash to immigrant relief fund, cuts ties with ICE's 'tech backbone' [Source]
  36. States want ICE agents to show their faces; the administration sues to block them (Wired) [Source]
  37. ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding at 26 Federal Plaza, kept packing people in (WaPo) [Source]
  38. Man Killed After ICE Encounter in Florida — Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán [Source]
  39. FBI Will No Longer Investigate Confrontations Involving ICE [Source]
  40. ICE Renews Thomson Reuters Data-Broker Contract to Identify Unaccompanied Minors [Source]
  41. Trump says ICE should keep making traffic stops after DHS paused them [Source]
  42. Maine man shot and killed by ICE. Neighbors have taken to the streets in protest. [Source]
  43. Level Three of Five: State Terror Inside the United States [Source]
  44. Inside ICE's Largest Detention Center [Source]
  45. ICE Kills a Man in Maine [Source]
  46. Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 [Source]
  47. CoreCivic sells Otay Mesa + California City to DHS ($1.5B)
  48. ICE OPR investigating online critics
  49. Trump bought as much as $5M in Axon stock before ICE sought $220M Taser deal [Source]
  50. Supreme Court Allows Trump to Block Asylum Seekers at Border [Source]
  51. Protesters Accused of Antifa Ties Sentenced to Up to 100 Years in ICE Attack [Source]
  52. Federal judge blocks Trump policy of making arrests at immigration courts nationwide [Source]
  53. Judge Finds Justice Dept. Overreach in Subpoenas to Minnesota Officials [Source]
  54. How Trump Pushed Social Security Toward the End [Source]
  55. DHS document shares plan to give local police departments facial recognition tech [Source]
  56. ICE cannot be allowed to hide its death count [Source]
  57. Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right [Source]
  58. ICE Is Quietly Rolling Out a $55 Billion Crematorium Network [Source]
  59. The South Rises Again [Source]
  60. The Mirror: They broke the body so you wouldn't notice whose children were missing [Source]
  61. 2ND FEDERAL EXECUTION IN MINNEAPOLIS: Video Evidence vs. Government Lies [Source]
  62. The Immigration Enforcement Paradox: When $75 Billion Buys Less Safety and More Surveillance [Source]
  63. One of Ours, All of Yours [Source]
  64. How Did We Forget - Part 3: The Machine [Source]
  65. DHS @DHSgov — 'America After 100 Million Deportations' post [Source]
  66. America's Violence Porn Addiction: How the Philippines Playbook Met A Reality TV Nation [Source]
  67. When the Math Stops Working [Source]
  68. The Signal [Source]
  69. National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7) [Source]
  70. The Deep State You've Been Looking For [Source]
  71. The Republican Test of 2025: Where the Hell Are You? [Source]
  72. Building the Machine of Mass Detention [Source]
  73. The Occupied Republic: After the Crossing [Source]
  74. It's Not an Immigration Crisis—It's a Processing Failure [Source]
  75. Live-Testing Authoritarianism: How Project 2025's Blueprint Is Unfolding in Los Angeles [Source]
  76. The Efficiency Lie: How Musk's DOGE Became a Trojan Horse for Digital Authoritarianism [Source]

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