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ICE has also purchased at least one “custom” training session for employees on using Microsoft Teams. FPDS details revealed that the training will focus on developing “documentation” for the Office of Program Management 287(g), which authorizes registered state and local agencies to work with ICE. “Automated documents” are also mentioned, but nothing in the FPDS reveals exactly what they are, or what role they play in the 287(g) program.
Christopher Mohawi is an assistant professor of law at the University of Illinois at Chicago lesson Psychological Effects of the US Immigration Control Infrastructure – Argues that people seeking asylum or refugee status in the United States, including the “security and survival” it can provide, are “inherently vulnerable” to the federal immigration control state, and can cause anxiety and “advanced harm to someone’s health.”
“There is not enough protection for these individuals,” Mohawi says.
Microsoft did not return WIRED’s request for comment.
Amazon
Both CBP and ICE use Amazon cloud storage to support their operations.
Federal payment records reveal that ICE is a customer of Amazon’s “GovCloud,” a version AWS, which the company says has enhanced security specifications for “critical workloads.” According to A Slide show Uploaded to SAM, the federal award management system, in July 2023, Palantir’s ICM runs on AWS.
The same document says Amazon also operates the “ICE Cloud,” an important part of the agency’s infrastructure. ICE Cloud hosts the agency’s “digital records manager,” “data warehouse,” and “Law Enforcement Information Sharing Service” (LEIS Service), according to a 2023 slide show. DHS described LEIS was introduced in 2019 as a “back-end super highway data sharing system” between ICE and other law enforcement agencies.
The 2023 slideshow shows that ICE Cloud also hosts the “PRIME Interface Hub,” which The Department of Homeland Security says “Moves queries to and from” two other sites. The first is ICE’s Integrated Enforcement Database, Which DHS says Contains “investigation, arrest, detention, detention, and removal” records for people encountered or arrested by ICE, CBP, or US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The second is “TECS” (which The Department of Homeland Security says Not currently an acronym, but formerly stood for “Treasury Enforcement Communications System”), CBP’s “information exchange platform” that Authorized users are allowed To access Customs and Border Protection databases containing information about anyone who entered the United States by plane, ship, car, or on foot, and any assets seized at the border.
Amazon also operates ICE’s “Automated Information Management System for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.” According to to September 2025 deal. This appears to be either a function within the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or another term for it, which stores information about people studying in the United States.
The two FPDS payments — though made in 2020 and 2022, before the period examined by WIRED — are considered large enough to warrant a mention. They revealed that Amazon was providing the infrastructure for ICE’s Repository for Analytics in a Virtual Environment (RAVEn), a tool for agents analysis “Primary or unevaluated data sets” — including documents, images, audio recordings, and other data — in more than a dozen federal databases. DHS Office of Inspector General report from 2023 describes RAVEn as an “internally developed” tool. It includes a basic “research and analysis tool,” a tool for sharing “referrals and key findings” across HSI field offices, and a mobile app.