An ICE Surveillance Vendor Is Misleading the Public
Edge Ops, the company behind a new immigrant-tracking system contracted by ICE, appears to have used stock photos, phantom past clients, and unverifiable executives on its website to market itself.
President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcers have awarded a defense vendor a $12 million contract to map out immigrants’ routines and real-time locations, and it is misrepresenting itself on its website. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images)
After the Lever reported last month that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcers awarded a defense vendor a $12 million contract to map out immigrants’ routines and real-time locations, the company, Edge Ops LLC, overhauled its website.
Gone was all mention of “Project SAFE HAVEN,” the “question-based AI interface” that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) planned to use to track immigrants and categorize them as potential threats. But that wasn’t all: the company also scrubbed details about its leadership and past clients.
Now a Lever review raises questions about whether several of the people and undertakings that Edge Ops advertised in the lead-up to its multimillion-dollar government deal actually exist.
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