Tracking down people who are eligible for deportation and moving them out is the logistical puzzle confronting Homan. He said he wants to enlist private companies to optimize ICE enforcement.
ICE officers have been spending too much time on “targeting,” Homan told me, which is the process of identifying deportation candidates and researching their daily routines so that officers don’t come up empty when they try to make an arrest. ICE teams can’t force their way into a residence without a judicial warrant, so they try to determine when the person they want to grab typically leaves for work, or drops off kids at school. Then they can try to catch them in the open.
This is one example of the kind of data research Homan would like to hand off to private contractors. Reached by phone a day after the Arizona security conference, he sounded like someone who’d been listening to pitches from management consultants and data firms.
“You got all these companies out there that say they can help with targeting,’’ Homan said, mentioning firms such as Palantir and Deloitte, neither of which responded to inquiries. “There are a lot of smart people who can help cops be more efficient at what they’re doing.’’
The White House has launched a new initiative encouraging Americans to report undocumented immigrants. The announcement includes a 24-hour Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tip line, which some believe has backfired amid ongoing protests of the Trump administration’s initiatives. The announcement led many users to call for the deportation of Elon Musk due to his controversial role overseeing job cuts in the Department of Government Efficiency. source
