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An Irish multinational professional services firm that provides technical and planning support to CBP and ICE.
A US-based military contractor whose drones are used to surveil the US–Mexico border.
A US air cargo transportation and aircraft leasing company that operates deportation flights for the US government.
A Dutch multinational military and aerospace company whose helicopters are used to monitor the US–Mexico border.
Google’s parent company. It provides cloud computing services and other technologies to the Israeli and US militaries, US immigration authorities, and electronic monitoring companies.
The world’s largest online retailer and cloud storage provider. It is the main provider of cloud infrastructure and services for the Israeli government and military, US immigration authorities, and US prisons and police.
A US-based provider of food, facility management, and uniform services. It provides food and other services to prisons and immigration jails and uses prison labor.
A US-based telecommunications company that provides communications services to US immigration authorities.
A US-based software company that provides biometric systems to US immigration authorities for border monitoring and surveillance.
A US manufacturer of less-lethal weapons and surveillance technology, which are used by the Israeli military and police against Palestinian civilians and by police, prison, immigration, and military agencies in the US and worldwide.
A US-based producer of high-end computing and industrial products that provides Mobile Video Surveillance Systems (MVSS) to US immigration authorities for monitoring the US–Mexico border.
A US government IT contractor, which developed cloud analytics services for US immigration authorities to track and target immigrants.
A US-based government contractor that provides computer and IT services to US immigration authorities and other federal agencies.
The owner of Safariland and Defense Technology, which manufacture tear gas and other crowd control weapons that are used by Israeli police and military authorities against Palestinians and by immigration, prison, and law enforcement agencies in the US and around the world.
A French IT and engineering firm that provides US immigration authorities with IT solutions used to support deportations.
An Israeli digital intelligence firm that supplies police, prison, and immigration authorities, as well as repressive regimes around the world, with hacking technologies.
A US-based producer of surveillance tools that provides video management systems for monitoring prisons, jails, and the U.S.–Mexico border.
A US-based retail and commercial banking company. It has been one of the main financial backers of private prison company CoreCivic.
A manufacturer of firearms and ammunition for military, law enforcement, and commercial markets in Israel, the U.S., and around the world.
The world’s largest private prison company. It owns and operates prisons and jails, including immigration jails and “community corrections” centers, and uses forced prison labor. It also provides e-carceration technologies, transportation, and other services as part of the criminal punishment system.
Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Its weapons are routinely used in war crimes against Palestinians and its surveillance systems are used in Palestine and along the U.S.–Mexico border.
A US-based credit reporting agency and data broker that provides US immigration authorities with information that enables them to locate people targeted for deportation.
A Canadian financial holding company. Its subsidiary Crum & Forster is the largest bail insurance company in the US.
A US-based banking and financial services company. It has been one of the main financial backers of private prison company CoreCivic.
A US-based vehicle manufacturer that provides commercial and specialized vehicles to Israeli occupation authorities and US police and immigration agencies.
The fifth-largest military contractor in the world. It manufactures weapons that are used by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians and surveillance technology that is used to monitor and surveil the U.S.–Mexico border and immigrant communities.
A US automaker whose engines power vehicles used by the Israeli military and whose trucks have been used by Israeli military and police forces to surveil Palestinians and for other occupation-related purposes. It supplies vehicles to US police, prison, and immigration authorities.
A US-based construction company that built parts of and performed maintenance on the US–Mexico border barrier.
A Japanese vehicle manufacturer that provides vehicles to US Customs and Border Protection.
A US-based construction and engineering firm that maintains and repairs the US–Mexico border fence in Arizona.
A US weapons manufacturer that provides phone tracking devices and other equipment to the Israeli military and US immigration authorities. It used to provide surveillance technologies for use along the US–Mexico border and at Israeli military checkpoints.
A US-based military IT contractor that provides imaging technologies and biometric systems to US immigration authorities for border monitoring and surveillance.
The world’s largest military company. It manufactures weapons that are routinely used by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians and reconnaissance aircraft that are used by US immigration authorities to monitor the US–Mexico border.
A Swedish data extraction firm that provides digital forensics tools to law enforcement and immigration authorities.
One of the world's largest companies. Its technologies are used by the Israeli military and police and by US government agencies to surveil immigrant communities and manage prisons.
A US-based communications and surveillance company. Its surveillance products are used in US prisons, along the US–Mexico border, and by US police departments. Its equipment is installed in illegal Israeli settlements and along the separation wall in the occupied West Bank and is used by the Israeli military, police, and prison service.
A Japanese IT company that provides US immigration authorities with biometric technologies used to target immigrant communities.
A Japanese financial services holding company. It has provided financing to private prison and immigrant detention company CoreCivic through two of its subsidiaries, Nomura Corporate Funding Americas and Nomura Securities International.
The world’s third-largest military company. It manufactures weapons that are used by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians and surveillance technologies used by US immigration authorities to monitor the US–Mexico border.
A US-based manufacturer of security and inspection systems, which are used at US border checkpoints and Israeli military checkpoints in the occupied Palestinian territory.
A US-based high-tech surveillance company whose big data AI tools are used by Israeli security forces and U.S. law and immigration enforcement agencies.
A US-based banking company. It has been a major financier of private prison company CoreCivic.
Headquartered in Medina, Minnesota, Polaris provides all-terrain vehicles to the Israeli military, illegal settlements, as well as US police and border patrol.
A UK-based data broker and information services provider. Its subsidiary LexisNexis provides US immigration authorities with systems used to track and target immigrant communities and sells legal databases to prisons and jails.
The world's second-largest military company, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies. It makes missiles, bombs, components for fighter jets, and other weapon systems used by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians. Its surveillance technology is also used to monitor the U.S.–Mexico border.
A US-based cloud computing and AI company whose systems power the Unified Immigration Portal, a database used by US immigration enforcement agencies to monitor and surveil immigrants.
A US military and intelligence contractor that provides license plate readers and other surveillance technologies to US immigration authorities.
A British engineering company that provides X-ray and surveillance technologies to US immigration authorities for monitoring borders.
A US-based banking and financial services company. It has been a major financier of private prison company CoreCivic.
A US-based facility management services company that owns and partially operates two ICE immigration jails.
A US engineering and IT government contractor that provides CBP with mobile surveillance systems used to monitor the US–Mexico border.
A US-based military contractor, known for its Beechcraft, Bell, Cessna, and Hawker aircraft, some of which are used to monitor the US–Mexico border and by the Israeli military.
A French IT and military company that designs biometric and identification management systems for US and European immigration authorities.
A US-based global investment firm. Its subsidiary ManTech International provides IT and surveillance services to US immigration authorities.
The world’s second-largest private prison company. It owns and operates prisons and jails, including immigration jails and “community corrections” centers, and uses forced prison labor. It also provides e-carceration technologies, transportation, and other services as part of the criminal punishment system.
A US-based pharmaceutical and biotech company that provides US immigration authorities with equipment for mass DNA testing of detained immigrants and Rapid DNA testing of migrant families at the US–Mexico border.
A US-based credit rating agency and data broker that provides risk mitigation services to immigration authorities and customized software to law enforcement agencies.
A Japanese vehicle manufacturer that provides all-terrain vehicles and watercraft to US Customs and Border Protection.
AARDVARK Tactical sells military-grade tactical equipment, including armor, TASERs, crowd control weapons, acoustic hailing devices, robots, personal protective products, personnel/vehicle search equipment, and vehicle stopping systems, to law enforcement, prison, and immigration agencies.
A Florida-based immigration bail bond company that operates across all 50 US states. It claims that it has posted bail for "tens of thousands" of people detained by US immigration authorities.
A California-based bail bond insurance company—comprised of Allegheny Casualty, Associated Bond, and International Fidelity—that underwrites jail and immigration bonds. It operates across all 50 US states and Puerto Rico.
A joint venture of several IT companies contracted in 2020 for five years of service to facilitate Homeland Security Investigation's usage of the Communications for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which requires telecom companies to help law enforcement wiretap their networks.
An Indiana-based property and casualty insurance company that specializes in underwriting immigration and jail bonds. It operates in 46 US states.
A Florida-based financial holding company whose bail bond surety subsidiary Bankers Surety provides surety services for immigration and jail bonds. It operates in over 40 US states.
The company designed, built, and repaired physical barriers along the border in Arizona and California from 2018 to 2020.
Berla, in collaboration with MSAB, makes vehicle forensics kits that CBP uses to extract personal information from cars' infotainment and navigation systems. The system can extract contact lists, messages, pictures, and recent destinations from any synchronized mobile devices.
A biometrics company that has conducted DNA analysis and testing of immigrants since 2014. Since 2019, Bode has provided CBP and ICE with Rapid DNA testing services using Thermo Fisher's RapidHIT ID system.
In a joint venture with Gibraltar US, Gibraltar-Caddell has designed and constructed US-Mexico border infrastructure since 2019. In 2017, Caddell desiged a prototype for the "Trump Wall."
Provides law enforcement agencies, including ICE since 2019, with a tool that indexes images from online sources and matches them with facial images in law enforcement databases.
A surveillance company that mines facial images from websites including social media and uses facial recognition software to create databases for law enforcement and other government agencies. Clearview has sold a subscription to its database to CBP since 2020.
Combined Systems Inc provides less-lethal weapons, including tear gas, and other equipment under its Combined Tactical Systems (CTS) brand to military forces and law enforcement agencies around the world.
Dataminr provides real-time alerts from social media and other public data sources to law enforcement, and this information is shared with DHS through its fusion centers.
One of the world's largest consulting firms, with multiple large contracts with ICE and CBP, including for optimizing their immigrant detention capabilities and for developing the Unified Immigration Portal (UIP), using Salesforce technology, to facilitate information sharing across DHS agencies.
Dev Technology is the main contractor for DHS' Enforcement Integrated Database (EID), which contains biometric and other information collected by ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations agents and is shared with CBP, other federal agencies, and the government of Mexico. The company also has contracts with CBP for biometric application development.
The primary contractor for border construction during the Trump administration, Fisher Sand & Gravel built more than 90 miles of walls and fences along the US-Mexico border in Texas and Arizona.
Developed and operates COPLINK, a system used to facilitate information sharing between local law enforcement and federal agencies including ICE. Forensic Logic had a contract with ICE for access to law enforcement data from 2018 to 2020.
A subsidiary of Allied Universal, the world's largest private security company. It runs private prisons in Australia and the UK and deports immigrants in the US. It divested from all of its activities with the Israeli government following a global campaign.
A Canadian private security firm that operates across 45 countries. In addition to providing security guards to government, commercial, and nonprofit clients, it sells security and surveillance equipment and offers armored car, police support, facility management, and other security-related services.
In a joint venture with Caddell Construction, Gibraltar-Caddell has designed and constructed US-Mexico border infrastructure since 2019.
A New Jersey–based immigration bail bond company that operates across all 50 US states.
Owned by private equity firm Peak Equity Partners, Grayshift provides its GrayKey system to ICE and CBP for extracting data from cell phones. In 2019, Grayshift partnered with Magnet Forensics to make GrayKey available to more law enforcement.
Owned by private equity firm Advent International, IDEMIA creates automated biometrics systems for governments around the world, including the US, since 2005.
Since 2014, JDL Digital Systems has provided support and equipment for the Video Evidence Collection and Distribution System (VECADS) used by ICE and CBP. The company develops standalone security cameras as well as video recording and time management equipment for aircraft, drones, and vehicles.
One of the largest construction and engineering companies in the US. Its subsidiary Southwest Valley Constructors has built physical barriers along the US-Mexico border in Texas, Arizona, and California under contracts worth $2.7 billion from 2019 to 2021. As the parent company, Kiewit Infrastructure had an additional smaller border construction contract in Texas from 2019 to 2020.
Has multiple CBP contracts for maintenance and repair along the US-Meixco border since 2019.
A construction firm specializing in government and military products KWR has provided construction and maintenance for the US-Mexico border mostly in Arizona, and in 2017 submitted a prototype for the "Trump Wall."
Lenco Industries manufactures the BEAR and BearCat armored vehicles for military, law enforcement, and immigration authorities around the world.
A Kentucky-based property and casualty insurance company that specializes in underwriting jail and immigration bail bonds. It operates across all 50 US states.
A Virginia-based bail bond services company that secures immigration bonds for individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in exchange for monthly and other fees. Owned by private e-carceration company Nexus Services, the self-proclaimed "legal aid" provider has been sued and investigated numerous times for "preying on undocumented immigrants" and "acting as an unlicensed bail bond agency."
A Canadian software company that sells phone-hacking and data analysis software to US immigration authorities and other law enforcement agencies.
Owned by private equity firm DC Capital Partners, Michael Baker International was contracted in 2021 by the State of Texas to construct a wall along its border with Mexico. In 2006, the company constructed more than 500 miles of physical barrier on the US-Mexico border.
Noblis provides systems engineering and technical assistance to DHS, testing and evaluating new DHS technologies. The company has provided biometric support services to DHS in the past, and DHS plans to use Noblis facial recognition technology to target suspected members of gangs.
A US-based military and government contractor that has provided maintenance and logistical services to Custom and Border Protection’s fleet of aircraft used for surveilling the US–Mexico border. It was acquired by private company Amentum in 2022, bringing it into the private sector.
A communications data analysis company that mines data including phone usage, social media, and internet communications to track people in real time. These data, which Pen-Link has provided to ICE and CBP since at least 2008, is integrated into the Palantir-designed Investigative Case Management (ICM) system.
Owned by private equity firm Veritas Capital, Peraton took over Northrop Grumman's contract for DHS' HART biometric database and L3Harris contract for CBP's Tethered Aerostat Radar System (blimps) on the US-Mexico border.
A forensics and biometrics company that, since 2019, consults DHS on optimizing its analysis of rapid DNA tests taken from immigrants at the US-Mexico border.
A subsidiary of Kiewit Infrastructure West, Southwest Valley Constructors has designed and built physical barriers along the US-Mexico border in Texas, Arizona, and California under contracts worth $2.7 billion from 2019 to 2021.
A Virginia-based immigration bail bond company that operates across all 50 US states.
Since 2019, Venntel has provided ICE and CBP with its database of people's locations based on mining smartphone app data.