Tech Giants Fuel Trump's Crackdown on Immigration
Exclusive analysis reveals how Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google power ICE and CBP's immigration enforcement efforts, spending over $515 million in recent years.
Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have become the backbone of the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration, powering the technology that drives the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). A WIRED investigation has uncovered that these tech giants have collectively received over $515 million in contracts from the two agencies in the past few years alone.
Through a series of lucrative deals, these tech companies have provided the data analytics, cloud computing, and surveillance tools that enable ICE and CBP to track, detain, and deport undocumented immigrants across the United States. Palantir, the secretive data mining firm co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, has emerged as a particularly crucial partner, securing over $150 million in contracts to develop ICE's central database for tracking and targeting immigrants.
{{IMAGE_PLACEHOLDER}}Source: Wired
