The corporate enablers of the #ICECrackdown

How #Amazon, AT&T, and #CitizensBank are profiting from the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Judd Legum
Jan 26, 2026

Excerpts: "#AmazonWebServices (#AWS) hosts the database, known as Investigative Case Management (#ICM), that ICE uses to target and deport #immigrants. ICM, which was created by #Palantir, 'integrates a vast ecosystem of public and private data to track down immigrants and, in many cases, deport them.' The data includes 'a person’s immigration history, family relationships, personal connections, addresses, phone records, biometric traits, and other information.' Through Palantir, AWS receives millions of dollars annually from the federal government to host ICM. Last April, the Trump administration awarded Palantir a new $30 million contract to create '#ImmigrationOS,' which is 'a new tool to provide [ICE] with enhanced capabilities to support deportation efforts.' ImmigrationOS is likely hosted on AWS, which has a strategic partnership with Palantir."

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"Numerous financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, SunTrust, BNP Paribas, and Fifth Third Bancorp, pledged in 2019 to stop working with the #PrivatePrisonIndustry. (#BankOfAmerica and SunTrust have since 'softened their policy statements to allow financing again for detention companies in some circumstances.') But #CitizensFinancialGroup, which operates #CitizensBank, has continued to provide financing for private prison construction. In July 2025, Citizens provided a $450 million revolving credit line to #GEOGroup. Earlier, in March 2025, Citizens underwrote $500 million in bonds for #CoreCivic."

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"In September 2024, AT&T inked a 10-year, $147 million contract with ICE’s parent agency, #DHS, to 'provide mission-critical communications services.' The agreement provides ICE and other DHS subdivisions with 'end-to-end voice priority over the AT&T commercial wireless network.' In August, the Trump administration awarded AT&T an $11 million no-bid contract to provide ICE with 'data analytics and support services.' "

Full article:
https://popular.info/p/the-corporate-enablers-of-the-ice

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/FBV5L

#ATandT #AT&T #USPol #ICESucks #AbolishICE #BorderPatrol #CBP #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity

More Oligarchs Who Get Our Tax Dollars

New Jersey Lawmakers Condemn “Inhumane” Conditions for Visitors to ICE Jail

https://murica.website/2025/10/new-jersey-lawmakers-condemn-inhumane-conditions-for-visitors-to-ice-jail/

The #PrivatePrison Industry Looks Forward to Soaring Profits Thanks to #Trump’s Budget

The $45 billion for #ImmigrationDetention in the "#BigBeautifulBill" represented a long-sought win for private prisons.

Matt Sledge, July 10 2025

Excerpt: "In the 2024 election cycle, employees and PACs affiliated with the publicly traded industry behemoths GEO Group and #CoreCivic contributed overwhelmingly to Republicans and Trump.

"Republicans received 92 percent of $3.7 million in contributions affiliated with GEO Group and 96 percent of the $785,000 in contributions affiliated with CoreCivic, according to #OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research group that tracks official disclosures. When Trump won, the two companies gave $500,000 each to his inaugural committee.

Even though the industry kept profiting from the Biden administration — despite a supposed ban on private prisons — one advocate said it was clear to her why companies went all-in on Trump."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/10/corecivic-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/t6cYB

#USPol #ICERaids #ICEKidnapping #MassDeportations #GatorGitmo #AlligatorAlcatraz #GeoGroup #TomHolman #PrivatePrisonIndustry #IndefiniteDetention #Fascism #Authoritarianism #CharacteristicsOfFascism #IndefiniteDetentionClause