Companies Complicit in the MAGA Regime

Those of you who’ve taken Indivisible’s One Million Rising training know the importance of destabilizing the pillars of the regime. One of those pillars is corporate complicity.

DHS and ICE could not do what they do without goods and services being provided through multi-million contracts funded with taxpayer money, including:   

• Sophisticated communications systems

• Surveillance technology

• Case management equipment

• Law enforcement investigative databases

• Fingerprint scanners

These products and services are the cogs of the MAGA machine that chews up people’s lives day after day.  We need our press to expose these companies’ complicity with fascism and hypocritical betrayal of their professed values. The regime’s actions are shameful—so let’s shame the companies making them possible.

Pulling at the Threads

ICE is part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), so to find the resources at ICE’s disposal, we can start by looking at DHS contracts. Shedding light on the multi-million-dollar contracts that are proliferating like wildfire now that Congress has gifted DHS with $165 billion is no easy task—but this is a start.

An important caveat: DHS encompasses numerous agencies, including Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), among others, so some of these resources may be shared within the Department—but we can reasonably assume that the Trump regime will favor ICE more often than not. Moreover, digging into which of these contracts are supporting ICE brutality and how is the media’s job, and we call on the media to do it.

Here is a select list of companies that have current contracts with DHS.

Contracts initiated prior to 2025 and currently active:

• AT&T: DHS contract for emergency telecom and FirstNet, a comms platform used by ICE, $146 million.
  https://about.att.com/story/2024/department-of-homeland-security.html

• Dell: Microsoft software deal powering DHS systems, including data infrastructure used in enforcement operations, $1.3 billion. https://www.govconwire.com/articles/dells-federal-business-awarded-1-3b-dhs-microsoft-enterprise-license-agreement-recompete

• Motorola Solutions: Secret Service contract and surveillance tech upgrades through DHS, $38 million. (9/23 end date extended.)https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70US0922F1DHS2302_7009_70B04C19D00000035_7014

• Deloitte: Over 250 contracts and task orders covering IT, data, and program management services, $1 billion+. https://orangeslices.ai/deloitte-wins-50m-dhs-ice-hsi-analytical-technical-logistical-and-administrative-support-task-on-gsa-oasis/

  https://govcdoiq.org/info-bytes/procurements/ice-taps-deloitte-for-data-modernization-support-contract/

• Thomson Reuters (subsidiary): Provides ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative subscription (CLEAR) that aggregates vast amounts of personal data-- including utility records, DMV data, social media activity, court records, and license plate scans--which ICE uses to track and locate individuals, $22.8 million. https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CMSD21C00000002_7012_-NONE-_-NONE-

• Booz Allen Hamilton: Design, development, and analytics support for DHS, $51.8 million.
  https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD022FR0000002_7012_GS35F386DA_4732

Contracts initiated in 2025 and currently active:

• GovCIO: Data analytics and program management for Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), $97 million. https://govcio.com/news/govcio-secures-97m-dhs-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice-data-analytics-and-program-management-support-contract/

• Akima Infrastructure Protection LLC: Procurement of immigration detention services at Krome Service Processing Center, Miami, $685.5 million. https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/a9eb5d04b4d34913a8363cdb927603f0/view

• Palantir: Development of new surveillance and case management platform for ICE, $30 million. https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-palantir-awarded-30-million-to-build-immigrationos-surveillance-platform-for-ice/

• Integrated Biometrics LLC: Fingerprint Scanners for HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) Miami, $26,200. https://www.federalcompass.com/award-contract-detail/70CMSD25P00000062#r

• Square One Armoring Services Co.: Armored vehicle equipment installation, $53,400. https://www.federalcompass.com/award-contract-detail/70CMSD25P00000056

• Foster & Freeman USA Inc.: Test measurement systems, $91,600. https://www.federalcompass.com/award-contract-detail/70CMSD2

• Lightsense Technology Inc.: Drug detection devices, $32,000.
  https://www.federalcompass.com/award-contract-detail/70CMSD25P00000060
  
  

With this brief peek into a system set up on a web of corporate greed that hurts our communities, what can be done? Will the media step up and report these lucrative deals and the damage they enable? Will companies reconsider their alliances with DHS when they hear the public outcry?

You can help - with consumer activism. The MAB+ team has listed directories where you can contact local news sources directly and demand that they report on corporate entanglements with ICE. Contact your local news source, and share with your friends! See their call script here.