Where we stop just watching the data and start breaking the machine.
This episode exposes the “stealth collaborators” quietly powering ICE operations through everyday services you already use. For each company we cover their polished public image, the documented reality, and — most importantly — how to hit their bottom line.
Bookmark two resources before you keep reading. You’ll want them:
American Dragnet — the definitive map of data broker and ICE surveillance relationships, published by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology and updated with a new foreword in May 2025.
AFSC Investigate — searchable company profiles with contract documentation. (Note: the AFSC Investigate homepage has shifted its primary focus to Palestinian rights divestment, but individual ICE-contractor profiles remain accessible via direct links. Navigate directly to specific companies.)
1. The Data Harvesters: LexisNexis (RELX plc) & Thomson Reuters
These two companies present themselves as tools for legal research and academic scholarship — “empowering justice,” in their own words. What they actually sell is warrant-free access to billions of records on 276+ million people: utility bills, DMV photos, phone and address histories, real-time jail bookings, all aggregated from more than 10,000 government and commercial sources. ICE searched LexisNexis more than 1.2 million times in just seven months in 2021. Thomson Reuters’ CLEAR platform builds “360-degree” dossiers used by ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations to track individuals targeted for deportation — including people with no criminal record.
Key documents:
EPIC Coalition Letter: Cancel the LexisNexis ICE Contract (Feb. 2023)
Just Futures Law: Fighting Data Brokers — legal cases, FTC complaints, and fact sheets on LexisNexis/Appriss and ICE
In These Times: The Data Brokers Fueling ICE’s Deportation Machine (Oct. 2025)
USAspending.gov: Thomson Reuters ICE Contract ($22.8M, expires 2026)
The action: Law students, faculty, and librarians — launch divestment campaigns at your institutions. Demand universities and libraries cancel subscriptions and switch to open-source alternatives. These companies depend on academic legitimacy. Remove it.
2. The Digital Panopticon: Clearview AI & Vigilant Solutions
Clearview AI scraped over 60 billion images from social media without consent and sells facial recognition searches to law enforcement. Vigilant Solutions runs the largest private license plate reader database in the country — over 5 billion location data points collected by cameras on toll roads, parking lots, repo trucks, and police cruisers. ICE uses both for crowd scanning and to track individuals’ movements across time and geography.
Key documents:
USAspending.gov: Clearview AI ICE Contract (Sep. 2025, $9.225M potential)
ACLU FOIA Records: ICE and Vigilant ALPR Access — documents over 9,200 ICE agents with Vigilant database access, 80+ local agencies feeding location data to federal immigration enforcement
The action: Show up to city council and police oversight board meetings. Demand bans on facial recognition and biometric surveillance. Demand prohibitions on local data-sharing with federal immigration enforcement. Force every elected official on the record. A vote is harder to walk back than a policy statement.
3. The Telecom Enablers: Comcast/Xfinity & AT&T
Both companies describe themselves as connecting communities. AT&T holds a contract providing ICE with dedicated IT infrastructure and network support. The contract includes civilian priority override provisions — meaning federal immigration enforcement traffic gets preferential routing. Comcast provides dedicated fiber and cable for ICE field offices.
Key documents:
Forbes: The Biggest ICE Contracts — Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte (Jan. 2026)
USAspending.gov: AT&T ICE IT/Network Contract ($90.7M base, up to $165.2M through 2032)
The action: Cancel Xfinity and AT&T service. Switch to a municipal broadband provider or local independent ISP where available. When retention asks why you’re leaving, tell them. Document it. Corporate customer service calls are logged and escalated when the volume is high enough.
4. The Cafeteria Profiteers: Aramark & Sodexo
Aramark is the largest food service contractor for prisons and jails in the United States, operating in approximately 450 correctional facilities. A December 2025 federal class-action lawsuit filed in West Virginia alleges the company deliberately under-portions institutional meals to force incarcerated people and their families to purchase food through Aramark’s own commissary and food-for-purchase programs — charging them twice for the same captive market. The lawsuit cites years of documented maggot infestations, rodent contamination, spoiled food, and hundreds of employee misconduct violations. Sodexo has historical ties and subcontract relationships with ICE detention facilities. Both companies maintain the same polished public image of “nourishing the world” while holding contracts in facilities where people cannot choose another option.
Key documents:
The Marshall Project: Aramark Class-Action Lawsuit, West Virginia (Dec. 2025)
Prison Legal News: Aramark’s Correctional Food Services — Meals, Maggots and Misconduct
The action: Student and worker walkouts. Demand your university, hospital, or employer terminate their Aramark or Sodexo contracts. These companies depend on institutional clients. The dining hall boycott works — Mississippi cancelled their Aramark contract after a federal lawsuit. Pressure your administration or HR to do the same.
5. The Logistics Network: Enterprise Mobility (Enterprise, National, Alamo)
Enterprise Mobility, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National, and Alamo, has diverted fleet vehicles to serve as unmarked ICE transportation during immigration raids. In Minnesota in early 2026, civilian reservations were canceled to free up vehicles for federal operations. The company faced an organized boycott campaign — the “ICE OUT Enterprise” actions — in response.
Key documents:
Business Insider: Enterprise Rental Car, ICE, and the Minnesota Protests (Jan. 2026)
Action Network: Letter Campaign to Enterprise — over 5,500 letters sent and counting
The action: Total boycott. Remove Enterprise, National, and Alamo from all corporate travel accounts and personal preferences. When booking, choose competing services and note why. If your employer has a corporate travel account with Enterprise, bring it to HR or your procurement team.
6. The Quiet Financiers: Citizens Bank & Bank OZK
While major banks like JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and seven others cut ties with private prison corporations after public pressure campaigns beginning in 2019, Citizens Financial Group moved in the opposite direction. Citizens Bank now serves as the administrative agent on credit agreements with both GEO Group and CoreCivic — the two companies that operate the majority of ICE immigration detention facilities. In 2024, Citizens became a key lender in a $700M+ credit agreement with GEO Group, and in early 2026 brokered an additional $100 million in credit access under more favorable terms. Citizens JMP Securities underwrote $200 million of a $500 million CoreCivic bond issuance in 2024. Bank OZK has similar ties to detention facility expansion financing.
Key documents:
MoveOn Petition: Citizens Bank, Stop Financing CoreCivic and The GEO Group
BoycottCitizens.org: Full Documentation with SEC Filing Timeline
SEC Filing: GEO Group 2024 Credit Agreement (Citizens as administrative agent)
SEC Filing: CoreCivic 2024 Bond Underwriting (Citizens JMP Securities, $200M of $500M)
The action: Close your accounts. Move to a local not-for-profit credit union. When you close, tell them in writing — account closures with stated reasons are tracked at the executive level. Find a credit union at MyCreditUnion.gov.
Put Them in a Deep Freeze
Every cancellation, every closed account, every walkout, every city council comment — it all cuts into the bottom line of a machine that runs on profit. You are not powerless. The companies on this list depend on civilian customers, student clients, institutional contracts, and retail depositors.
Starve the beast with every dollar, every subscription, and every vote.
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All links verified active as of March 1, 2026. Primary sources include USAspending.gov contracts, SEC filings, court documents, and direct investigative reporting.
