Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
“Immigration and Customs Enforcement is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to put 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen cities and the District of Columbia, in what contracting and surveillance experts said would be a significant expansion of the agency’s ability to reach into private lives. The new program is called the Enforcement and Removal Operations Overwatch and National Security Enforcement, or ERO ONE, described in documents posted last month on federal procurement websites. Under the program, agents would analyze classified and unclassified information to identify ‘trends, patterns, relationships, threats, and intelligence gaps’, and provide ICE with briefings for Enforcement and Removal Operation missions, according to a statement of work published on September 18. A forecasting document published a week earlier said that the solicitation will likely be released on December 10. Intelligence contracting experts said the timeline suggests ICE will award the contract around February.” (10/14/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/10/14/ice-planning-nightmare-domestic-spy-program-ero-one/