Since U.S. President Donald Trump returned to office last year, his administration has made the deportation of undocumented immigrants one of its signature policy goals.

At the center of much of this effort are a couple of government agencies, including ICE or immigration and customs enforcement.

But these goals aren't being executed by the government alone.

This is happening with the help of private sector companies.

So just to name a few, there's companies you've probably heard of, like Microsoft or Amazon,

Palantir or Deloitte, but there's also a lot of smaller businesses contracting in there.

There's an airline broker called CSI Aviation.

There's a construction firm called Fisher Sand and Gravel.

That's my colleague Peter Andringa.

He's part of the FT's Visual Investigations team.

And he and some of our colleagues spent months reporting on the sprawling web of private

sector businesses that are beneficiaries of this expanded effort. Over the last 12 months, we've seen

record numbers of arrests, detentions, and deportations from the country. The White House calls this

the largest mass deportation campaign in history. Last year, ICE got more money to carry out these efforts.

The agency received an additional $75 billion from Congress to be used over the next four years

on top of its existing annual funding.

That money makes it the largest law enforcement agency in the country.

There's huge amounts of new contracting, new hiring, new spending, and ultimately new deportation

operations.

And knowing that suddenly ICE has this huge ambition, huge new budgets, I knew that contractors

would be lining up and looking for a piece of this.

Thank you. contractors would be lining up and looking for a piece of this. I'm Mikhaila Tendera from the Financial Times.

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