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Under the second Trump administration, ICE has spent more on cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft than ever before, according to federal contracting records. Between March and November last year, ICE ordered $38 million in Microsoft software via reselling partners like Dell Federal Systems. The same agency made a $25 million purchase of Amazon Web Services’ cloud systems in September. That month, ICE also spent $530,000 on Google cloud products.

That doesn’t include deals with Customs and Border Protection, whose resources have shifted to assisting ICE in the White House-mandated crackdown on immigration across the U.S. Also through Dell, Customs and Border Protection purchased $38 million in Microsoft licenses in March, as well as nearly $39 million worth of AWS cloud services — the latter a record for Amazon.

ICE’s remit goes beyond immigration enforcement and also includes narcotics and child exploitation. The technologies it’s bought from Amazon and Microsoft, which are for cloud computing and productivity tools, are not explicitly for the agency’s surveillance or enforcement operations.

But some of the tech giants’ staff are displeased with their employers’ ICE deals. After ICE agents shot and........

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