Michael Wriston, a former military cryptologic language analyst, examines a DHS procurement notice for ‘ERO Overwatch and National Security Enforcement,’ a contract worth over $100 million to build a targeting-style AI intelligence-analysis capability for ICE. He argues the program imports military counterterrorism targeting methods, developed overseas after 9/11, into domestic immigration enforcement. Wriston warns that pairing this AI-driven analytical capability with ICE’s existing surveillance-data infrastructure would let the government locate and target individuals nationwide with far fewer constitutional safeguards than apply to military intelligence operations.
