Palantir, the artificial intelligence and data analytics company, has quietly started working on a tech platform for a federal immigration agency that has referred dozens of individuals to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for potential enforcement since September.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency—which handles services including citizenship applications, family immigration, adoptions, and work permits for noncitizens—started the contract with Palantir at the end of October, and is paying the data analytics company to implement “Phase 0” of a “vetting of wedding-based schemes,” or “VOWS” platform, according to the federal contract, which was posted to the U.S. government website and reviewed by Fortune.
