How are ICE agents picking where to commit their next act of wanton violence? Well, Palantir has an app for that!

According to a user guide obtained by 404 Media, the app provides ICE agents with a digital map populated by potential deportation targets, each of which has their own detailed dossier, including information such as their name, date of birth, Alien Registration Number (a unique identifier assigned by the U.S. government), and a photograph of the target. The dossier also includes a “confidence score” out of 100 as to how certain the app is of the target’s address.

“Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) is a targeting tool designed to improve capabilities for identifying and prioritizing high-value targets through advanced analytics,” the user guide states.

The information comes from a number of sources, including the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and something called CLEAR, which could be an investigation software from Thomson Reuters, according to 404Media.

The app’s “Geospatial Lead Sourcing Tab” allows ICE agents to select targets based on a number of criteria, including “Bios & IDs,” “Criminality,” “Location,” and “Operations,” the user guide shows. Using the app, ICE agents can select individual targets or multiple targets at once by drawing a shape around a selected area. During a sworn deposition earlier this month about a “dragnet” raid in Woodburn, Oregon, an officer with ICE’s Fugitive Operations Unit said that agents used the app to find target-rich areas.

“You’re going to go to a more dense population rather than … like, if there’s one pin at a house and the likelihood of them actually living there is like 10 percent … you’re not going to go there,” said the agent, who was identified as “JB” in the court documents obtained by 404 Media.

While the user guide does not explicitly state what company created the app, the app’s full name appears in a $29.9 million supplemental agreement with Palantir that started in September and is planned to continue for at least a year, 404Media reported.

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    Abolish ice and palintir. Arrest every ceo and palantir shareholder and sieze their assets for the restoration of democracy and for the rebuilding of Palestine for the Palestinian people

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      Arresting them is not enough. The world will have to be a very dark place before it can shine again. The people who’s trying to destroy civilization must be hung. They cannot be free to live out the rest of their lives. Nuremberg should look like a fucking failure compared to what we should do! Fuck these leeches of life, they don’t deserve it.

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        I agree but we have to do trials and get convictions but I agree the death penalty should be on the table for all

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          Should Ross, who executed Good in public, deserved as trial, and if not getting the death penalty, be allowed to live in a prison for X number of years, only to be released to the public? I’m sorry, but I’m done with the civility of these cunts.

          They’re not giving the thousands of people they’re arresting a trial and conviction, so why should we offer this civility to them?

          I know I’m being really fucking dark, but I see no other option. Nuremberg was the biggest failure of the 20th century because it didn’t do enough!