Have any corporations publicly disclosed contracts or partnerships with ICE, and where are those disclosures recorded?
Executive summary
Yes: corporations have publicly disclosed contracts or partnerships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and those disclosures are recorded in federal procurement databases (most prominently USAspending.gov), company statements and press releases, and third‑party trackers and investigations such as Sludge, LittleSis and investigative reporting by outlets including Fortune and Forbes [1] [2] [3].
1. Public records are the primary source — USAspending and DHS filings
The clearest, regularly updated record of corporate work for ICE appears in federal procurement data available on USAspending.gov, which reporters and watchdogs use to list active contracts and obligations; Fortune relied on USAspending to identify Fortune 500 companies with active ICE contracts as of mid‑June 2025 [2], and Sludge explicitly built an interactive map from USAspending entries showing every company awarded new or modified ICE obligations during the second Trump administration [1].
2. Company disclosures, statements and press responses are also recorded publicly
Some firms have publicly acknowledged or been reported to have provided services to ICE: management consultancy McKinsey disclosed about $20 million in work for ICE in 2018 and announced it would stop that work, a disclosure that provoked employee protests [3]; Microsoft was reported to have a roughly $19.4 million cloud support relationship tied to ICE and faced internal protest even as leadership framed its assistance as technical support rather than policy endorsement [3], and other companies named in coverage and watchdog reports include AT&T, Palantir, Deloitte and Amazon among those with known relationships or contracts referenced in reporting and advocacy materials [3] [2] [4].
3. Private‑sector contractors with large, well‑documented ties — prisons, transportation, tech
Companies that operate detention facilities and transport detainees are among the most visible contractors: private prison firms such as GEO Group and CoreCivic have long been identified as major ICE contractors, with earnings and contract revenue documented in corporate filings and analyzed by watchdogs like the Brennan Center [5], and reporting and activist campaigns regularly link airlines, transportation providers and logistics firms to deportation charters and services, sometimes prompting contract terminations or divestments [5] [6].
4. Third‑party trackers, investigative maps and advocacy lists compile and publicize disclosures
Beyond raw federal data, organizations and newsrooms compile accessible lists and visualizations: Sludge’s interactive map and LittleSis’ research guides aggregate USAspending records and other documentation to show which vendors received ICE obligations [1] [6], while watchdog campaigns and outlets such as Americans for Tax Fairness, Public Accountability Initiative/LittleSis and news outlets have published named lists that activists and journalists use to pressure firms or verify contracts [4] [7].
5. Limits, grey areas and corporate opacity — what records don’t always show
Public disclosures understate the full picture in several ways: contracts can be hidden within task orders, IDIQ vehicles, prime/subcontractor relationships or franchise arrangements that are harder to trace (legal guides caution that ICE work can appear under many procurement structures) and firms sometimes decline to detail scope publicly; reporting notes Microsoft did not clearly state it cut ties despite employee protest, and Fortune observed that not all corporate work for ICE is easy to spot in public sources [3] [2] [8].
6. Practical avenues to verify a company’s ICE ties right now
To confirm whether a specific company has publicly recorded ICE work, researchers and concerned citizens should search USAspending.gov for the company name and ICE as the agency, consult DHS and ICE announcements for prime contract awards, review corporate press releases and SEC/earnings disclosures for references to federal homeland‑security work, and consult compiled trackers (Sludge, LittleSis) and investigative reports from outlets like Fortune, Forbes and CNN for contextual reporting and protest outcomes [1] [2] [3] [9].
Conclusion
Public evidence shows many corporations have documented contracts or partnerships with ICE and those disclosures are recorded across federal procurement records (USAspending), company-level statements and filings, and investigative compilations and maps maintained by reporters and watchdog groups; however, task orders, subcontracting and limited corporate transparency mean public records can be incomplete, requiring cross‑checking among federal databases, company disclosures and third‑party trackers to build a fuller picture [1] [2] [8] [6].