Show Notes
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.
Clips from ABC7 News Bay Area, CBS 6 Albany, C-SPAN, Donald J Trump, Fox 26 Houston, Fox Nashville, Fox News, NBC Connecticut, The New York Times
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For further reading: Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Trump’s immigration data dragnet The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
For further listening: Palantir’s relentless rise US uses private data to track immigrants
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