ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement is leveraging Palantir’s generative artificial quality tools to benignant and summarize migration enforcement tips from its nationalist submission form, according to an inventory released Wednesday of each usage cases the Department of Homeland Security had for AI successful 2025.

The AI Enhanced ICE Tip Processing work is intended to assistance ICE investigators “to much rapidly place and enactment tips” for urgent cases, arsenic good arsenic construe submissions not made successful English, according to the inventory. It besides provides a “BLUF,” defined arsenic a “high-level summary of the tip,” produced utilizing astatine slightest 1 ample connection model. BLUF, oregon “bottom enactment up front,” is simply a subject word that’s besides utilized internally by immoderate Palantir employees.

DHS says that the bundle is “being actively authorized” successful enactment of ICE operations, adding that the instrumentality helps trim the “time-consuming manual effort required to reappraisal and categorize incoming tips.” The day erstwhile the AI-enhanced extremity processing “became operational” is listed successful the inventory arsenic May 2, 2025.

The DHS inventory does not supply galore details astir the ample connection models Palantir uses to make the BLUFs; however, it does enactment that ICE uses “commercially disposable ample connection models” that were “trained connected the nationalist domain information by their providers.”

"There was nary further grooming utilizing bureau information connected apical of what is disposable successful the models’ basal acceptable of capabilities,” the inventory besides notes. “During operation, the AI models interact with extremity submissions."

The “2025 DHS AI Use Case Inventory,” published Wednesday connected DHS’s website, has been published for each twelvemonth since 2022. The 2024 mentation of the inventory does not notation utilizing AI to process extremity enactment submissions.

Palantir has been a large ICE contractor since 2011, and it provides a sweeping acceptable of analytical tools for the agency. Until now, however, astir thing has been known astir Palantir’s enactment processing tips for ICE.

This enactment was mentioned erstwhile successful the statement of a $1.96 cardinal Palantir outgo ICE made successful September 2025. The outgo was to modify the Investigative Case Management System (ICM)—a mentation of Palantir’s off-the-shelf instrumentality enforcement product, Gotham, which stores accusation astir existent oregon erstwhile ICE investigations—to see the “Tipline and Investigative Leads Suite.”

The statement includes nary different details astir Palantir’s enactment connected this “Tipline” integration.

However, the “AI Enhanced ICE Tip Processing” instrumentality whitethorn beryllium an update to the “FALCON Tipline,” which replaced ICE’s erstwhile tip-processing strategy astir 2012.

Palantir, ICE, and DHS did not instantly respond to requests for comment.

According to a DHS papers past updated successful 2021, the FALCON Tipline processes tips submitted by the nationalist oregon instrumentality enforcement agencies astir “suspected amerciable activity” oregon “suspicious activity” to ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tipline Unit. ICE lone appears to person 1 tipline, but submissions tin beryllium made online oregon implicit the phone.

An introduction to a national registry successful December 2025 notes that erstwhile HSI receives a tip, investigators wrong its Tipline Unit behaviour “queries” crossed assorted “DHS, instrumentality enforcement, and migration databases.” After analyzing these results, HSI agents constitute “investigative reports” and past notation tips to the due offices wrong DHS. It’s unclear precisely however overmuch of this workflow whitethorn beryllium assisted by the recently AI-enhanced processing.

Data from the FALCON Tipline, Palantir’s ICM, and respective different databases are ingested and made searchable by the FALCON Search & Analysis System, a abstracted but likewise named instrumentality besides developed by Palantir.

After national agents changeable and killed Minneapolis caregiver Alex Pretti connected Saturday, Palantir workers pressed enactment for answers connected the company’s enactment with ICE. In Slack messages, reviewed by WIRED this week, workers asked whether Palantir could “put immoderate unit connected ICE astatine all.” One idiosyncratic wrote, “Our engagement with crystal has been internally swept nether the rug nether Trump2 excessively much. We request an knowing of our engagement here.”