"Earlier this year, the U.S. Congress approved a massive increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including $45 billion for immigrant detention and $30 billion for recruitment and training, bonus pay, and additional facilities and vehicles. ICE's budget for the 2025 fiscal year will be around $28 billion, up from $8 billion, making it "the highest funded law enforcement agency in the federal government," according to the New York Times."
"Corporations and billionaires across the U.S. have long profited from materially enabling ICE's deportation apparatus. Now, with escalating attacks on immigrant workers and families and ramped-up ICE funding, corporations and oligarchs are set to cash in even more from lucrative contracts to supply ICE's " Deportation-Industrial Complex " with everything from surveillance tech and airline transportation to cloud services and bank financing."
Congress approved a major increase in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allocating roughly $45 billion for immigrant detention and $30 billion for recruitment, training, bonus pay, facilities, and vehicles. ICE's 2025 budget rises to about $28 billion from $8 billion, making ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency. Corporations and billionaires profit by contracting with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security for services ranging from surveillance technology and airline transportation to cloud computing and banking. Palantir sits at the core of ICE's deportation machine. Hundreds of companies, both niche and name-brand, hold ICE contracts. Resources and links exist for researching additional contractors and local presences.
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