"Contractors would confirm home and work addresses for people targeted for removal by-among other techniques-photographing residences, documenting comings and goings, and staking out workplaces and apartment complexes. Those filings cast the initiative as a substantial but limited pilot program. Contractors were guaranteed as little as $250 and could earn no more than $90 million each, with the overall program capped at $180 million. That structure pointed to meaningful scale but still framed the effort as a controlled trial, not an integral component of ICE's removal operations."
"Newly released amendments dismantle that structure. ICE has removed the program's spending cap and replaced it with dramatically higher per-vendor limits. Contractors may now earn up to $281.25 million individually and are guaranteed an initial task order worth at least $7.5 million. The shift signals to ICE's contracting base that this is no longer an experiment, but an investment, and that the agency expects prime-tier contractors to stand up the staffing, technology, and field operations needed to function as a de facto arm of federal enforcement."
ICE is expanding plans to outsource immigrant tracking and surveillance to private firms, replacing a capped pilot with a no-cap procurement and large per-vendor guarantees. The agency removed a $180 million program cap and set per-contractor ceilings up to $281.25 million, with initial guaranteed task orders of at least $7.5 million. Contractors would perform street-level verification including photographing residences, documenting comings and goings, staking out workplaces, and using commercial data and open-source research. Monthly recurring batches of cases were described at 50,000 drawn from a docket of 1.5 million people. The changes indicate a shift from trial to sustained operational reliance on private contractors.
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