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A new report has outlined the massive expansion in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)’s use of surveillance technologies and partnerships with technology companies during President Donald Trump’s second term.

The report, released this week by Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Surveillance Resistance Lab, explains that billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been diverted for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contracts with surveillance and technology companies. DHS runs both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

“A key sector of tech funded by venture capital has positioned itself as visioning and directing the war machine and asserts that AI is vital to US national security and the economy,” the report states. This has facilitated increasingly close ties between “tech oligarchs” and the government, as seen in the case of Peter Thiel – co-founder of Palantir – and Elon Musk, among others.

The report tracked ICE and CBP contracts with 11 surveillance technology companies from 2013 to 2026, and found that funding awarded to these firms doubled from 2024 to 2025 to over $310 million, and spiked further in 2026 to $513 million. This was particularly driven by contracts to Palantir, for surveillance technology, and defense company Anduril, for border towers, drones, and related AI surveillance systems.

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