ICE launches nationwide program for covert surveillance of immigrants

A subsidiary of the French company Capgemini signed a contract for some of the work, but after pressure from French officials, Capgemini now says it is no longer executing the contract.

ICE’s lead contractor for a new program to covertly surveil and photograph undocumented immigrants across the United States said after pressure from French officials that its contract is not being executed, in a rare rebuke of the agency by one of its own suppliers.

In December, Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began a nationwide program to track 1.5 million undocumented immigrants through paid contractors using a combination of remote technologies and on-the-ground surveillance.