Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans a roughly $100 million program called ERO ONE to hire 142 intelligence contractors with active top‑secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearances and place them in more than two dozen cities plus Washington, D.C. The contractors would analyze classified and unclassified material to produce network and link analyses, timelines, charts, and written assessments to brief Enforcement and Removal Operations missions; they would not make operational decisions. Federal procurement documents set out the statement of work and a rapid timeline (solicitation forecasted for December with an award likely in February), and list deployment sites including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Paul and others.
Former intelligence officials, civil‑liberties advocates, and ex‑DHS employees warn the program effectively builds an internal domestic spying capability that could reach beyond undocumented immigrants to political opponents and immigrant communities more broadly. They note the use of top‑secret clearances, the expedited schedule, and the plan’s reliance on network‑style analysis are alarming; contractors would draw on existing surveillance tools and commercial data sources already in ICE’s toolkit (cell‑tower mimics, license‑plate readers, Mobile Fortify, Palantir, LexisNexis), raising questions about legality of sources and liability for bidders. Procurement staff say potential bidders are known and an industry day is unlikely; DHS declined to comment.
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