Being Assassinated in Your Home by a Killer Robot Sent by a Fascist State Is No Longer Science Fiction
>ICE has signed contracts worth more than $60 million with Peter Thiel's [Palantir](https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/) to build something called [ImmigrationOS](https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-immigrationos-palantir-ai-track-immigrants/) and a targeting app called [ELITE](https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/palantir-elite-ice-targeting-app-confidence-scores-2026/), which stands for _Enhanced Leads Identification and Targeting for Enforcement_.
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>ELITE pulls data from the IRS, the [Social Security](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/social-security) Administration, DMV records, [Medicaid](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/medicaid) files, utility bills, license-plate readers, and commercial data brokers (which typically include social media posts and often even emails when they come from "free" email providers), then populates a map with dossiers and assigns a "confidence score" to each person's current address. If you update your address to get medical care, for example, that updates your score. Or post something on social media.
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>[Stephen Miller](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/stephen-miller), the architect of this dystopian enforcement regime, [reportedly holds](https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/headlines/trump_adviser_stephen_miller_holds_six_figure_investment_in_tech_firm_profiting_from_deportations) a six-figure financial stake in Palantir, which, as far as I can tell, nobody in Congress has yet demanded answers about.
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>Meanwhile, ICE has been buying and using [Skydio drones](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/20/spokane-police-to-receive-barriers-and-ai-powered-/) for [protest](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/protest) monitoring, Customs and Border Protection has been flying [MQ-9 Predator drones](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/) (the same platform that killed people in [Yemen](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/yemen) and [Pakistan](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/pakistan)) over anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles, and the FAA quietly issued a nationwide notice in January creating 3,000-foot [no-fly zones](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice) around every DHS and ICE vehicle, so that citizens and journalists can't film federal [immigration](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/immigration) operations from the air.
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>That last piece is the the most alarming tell of all: you don't close the sky above an enforcement agency unless you're planning to do things there you don't want photographed
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>ELITE pulls data from the IRS, the [Social Security](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/social-security) Administration, DMV records, [Medicaid](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/medicaid) files, utility bills, license-plate readers, and commercial data brokers (which typically include social media posts and often even emails when they come from "free" email providers), then populates a map with dossiers and assigns a "confidence score" to each person's current address. If you update your address to get medical care, for example, that updates your score. Or post something on social media.
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>[Stephen Miller](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/stephen-miller), the architect of this dystopian enforcement regime, [reportedly holds](https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/25/headlines/trump_adviser_stephen_miller_holds_six_figure_investment_in_tech_firm_profiting_from_deportations) a six-figure financial stake in Palantir, which, as far as I can tell, nobody in Congress has yet demanded answers about.
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>Meanwhile, ICE has been buying and using [Skydio drones](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/apr/20/spokane-police-to-receive-barriers-and-ai-powered-/) for [protest](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/protest) monitoring, Customs and Border Protection has been flying [MQ-9 Predator drones](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/ice-surveillance-immigrants-protesters/) (the same platform that killed people in [Yemen](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/yemen) and [Pakistan](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/pakistan)) over anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles, and the FAA quietly issued a nationwide notice in January creating 3,000-foot [no-fly zones](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice) around every DHS and ICE vehicle, so that citizens and journalists can't film federal [immigration](https://www.commondreams.org/tag/immigration) operations from the air.
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>That last piece is the the most alarming tell of all: you don't close the sky above an enforcement agency unless you're planning to do things there you don't want photographed