US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is seeking contractors to trawl social media and other open-source data for potential immigration enforcement leads, assuming public posts can yield actionable intelligence.

A contract opportunity published on Thursday by ICE states that the Homeland Security component is seeking about 30 contractors to perform investigations and analysis of open-source intelligence from the web, which solicitation documents suggest will largely focus on social media platforms.

"The Contractor will use a wide range of information sources including publicly available internet-based social media platforms," ICE said. Commercial and law enforcement databases, as well as deep web and darknet data sources, are also in scope for the chosen contractor and their team,

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