01.28.2026

From Facial Recognition to Geolocation: Inside the Tech Powering ICE Raids

Over the past year some 230,000 people were arrested in the U.S. by ICE and deported by the Trump administration. Trump's immigration crackdown authorizes immigration agents to arrest people off the streets and invade their homes. How is it that ICE is able to pinpoint certain neighborhoods and specific targets? Joseph Cox discusses his reporting into Palantir's role in facilitating all this.



About the Program

PBS and WNET, in collaboration with CNN, launched the new one-hour late-night public affairs series Amanpour and Company on Monday, September 10 on PBS (check local listings).
The new series features wide-ranging, in-depth conversations with global thought leaders and cultural influencers on the issues and trends impacting the world each day, from politics, business and technology to arts, science and sports.  Christiane Amanpour leads the conversation on global and domestic news from London with contributions by prominent journalists Walter Isaacson, Michel Martin and Hari Sreenivasan from the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Major support for Amanpour and Company is provided by the Anderson Family Endowment, Jim Attwood and Leslie Williams, Candace King Weir, the Sylvia A. and Simon B. Poyta Programming Endowment to Fight Antisemitism, the Straus Family Foundation, The Peter G. Peterson & Joan Ganz Cooney Fund, Charles Rosenblum, Monique Schoen Warshaw, Koo and Patricia Yuen and Barbara Hope Zuckerberg.