ICE plans to give local police facial recognition app for immigration enforcement An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) privacy document publicly accessible on the agency’s website says a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) mobile facial recognition app will allow ICE-deputized state and local law enforcement officers to photograph people in the field, run their faces against federal identity records, and help determine whether they are removable from the U.S. The 10-page developerPrivacyPolicy (PTA), labeled ICE Task Force Module (TFM), Version ICE Privacy 09-2025, lists the app’s launch date as September 24, 2025, and says the project was in development when the document was approved by the ICE Privacy Office the next day. The document describes the TFM as a mobile application that was developed by CBP and made available to authorized “ICE non-federal law enforcement officers” operating in the field to verify a person’s identity and immigration status through facial recognition. The app is believed to be Mobile Fortify, a mobile biometric application already deployed by ICE and CBP which CBP released last year for local law enforcement agencies participating in ICE’s 287(g) Task Force Model. Discovery of the TFM document, labeled “developerPrivacyPolicy.pdf” on ICE’s website, adds a new dimension to what is known about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plan to extend the app to state and local police officers working under ICE authority. According to the document, the TFM app would run face photos against more than 250 million DHS and Department of State visa records included in subsets of CBP’s Traveler Verification Service. The response would consist of text messages instructing the officer either not to detain or arrest the person under ICE jurisdiction, or providing a reference code the officer could use outside the app to obtain additional information from ICE. A police officer or