Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

Raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have made national headlines. But behind ICE’s operations, a sprawling web of private companies – from global powerhouses to niche family-run businesses – have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts. Peter Andringa from the FT’s visual investigations team spent months crawling through federal documents and data sets to put together a picture of the companies that make up this web.

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For further reading:
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown (ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd7153…)
Trump’s immigration data dragnet (ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance)
The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights (ig.ft.com/us-deportation-flights)

For further listening:
Palantir’s relentless rise (ft.com/content/33e43b0b-c004-4ed2-b2db-8874b41…)
US uses private data to track immigrants (ft.com/content/540dd0d5-a3b2-4482-adde-f88a734…)

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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com (ft.com/content/e866adaf-07c6-4be1-b543-e3aafc2…)

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