ICE Agents Now Carry a Palantir-Powered List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones

A senior ICE official told a trade-show audience that agents now access a Palantir-built database of roughly 20 million people directly from agency-issued iPhones, dramatically increasing the speed of identification and enforcement actions in the field. The reporting underscores how the Palantir ImmigrationOS contract continues to expand ICE’s real-time surveillance footprint — even as most people detained by ICE in 2026 have no criminal conviction.