History in the Service of Solidarity
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This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration .
Key Players
Profiles by the American Friends Service Committee
Axon Enterprise Inc .: A US manufacturer of Tasers and other less-lethal weapons, used by the Israeli military and police and by US law and immigration enforcement authorities.
Boeing Co : The world’s third-largest military company. It manufactures multiple weapon systems that are routinely used in war crimes against Palestinian civilians and previously designed the smart/virtual wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Cadre Holdings Inc . 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.
Elbit Systems Ltd . 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.
General Dynamics Corp : 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.
Leidos Holdings Inc: A US-based military IT contractor that provides imaging technologies and biometric systems to US immigration authorities for border monitoring and surveillance.
Lockheed Martin Corp : 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.
Northrop Grumman Corp : 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.
Palantir Technologies Inc : A militarized high-tech data analytics firm that enables Israeli war crimes, US deportations and military operations, and controversial policing tactics.
RTX Corp : 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.
News: 2026
January 26. Ty Roush: These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire .
January 27. Thomas Brewster: The Men Making Millions Selling Pepper Spray To ICE .
February 19. Aaron Parnas: New Report Highlights ICE and CBP’s Multi-Million Dollar Surge to Amass Weapons and Munitions Executive .
February 25. Greg Sargent: Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All .
March 6. Hank Johnson & Michael Shank: Americans are being policed with military-grade weapons. This has to stop .
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August 6. Jessica Mathews: How Palantir—a company too small to make the Fortune 500—became one of the world’s 25 most valuable companies .
September 17. Thomas Brewster: ICE Just Bought A Robot That Can Climb Stairs And Open Doors: ICE can now deploy a robot capable of letting off smoke grenades and navigating obstacles in its raids .
October 10. George Chidi: US immigration enforcement using military hardware and tactics on civilians: Agencies like Ice are way ahead of Donald Trump, who wants the military to treat cities like ‘training grounds’ .
October 20. Judd Legum: ICE boosts weapons spending 600%: A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives .
December 10. Maya Yang: US signs nearly $140m deal to purchase six Boeing 737s for use in deportations: Funds for contract signed with Daedalus Aviation will come from $170bn allocated for Trump’s border policy .
December 11. Bloomberg: The Military Suppliers Behind Immigration Raids .
December 19. Giacomo Tognini: Meet The Former Banker Who Is Now A Private Defense Billionaire .
Image from Human Rights Watch: Immigrants Abused in Florida Detention Sites: Pervasive Overcrowding, Medical Neglect, Degrading Treatment .
This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration .
For medical neglect of pregnant women, see: ICE’s Brutal Treatment of Pregnant Women .
News: 2026
January 20. Judd Legum: ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment .
January 20. Angela Kocherga & Michel Martin: Concerns about conditions at Texas detention center grow after 3 die in custody .
January 20. Brittny Mejia & Ruben Vives: U.S. senators tour California City ICE facility, decry conditions and inadequate medical care .
January 28. Oren Peleg: The Cruel Conditions of ICE’s Mojave Desert Detention Center: How immigration authorities have weaponized medical neglect to encourage self-deportations .
February 2. Juliana Lightsey: Hundreds of Kids, Including Infants, Are Still at the ICE Facility That Released Liam Ramos. Now There’s a Measles Outbreak .
February 6. Mike Hixenbaugh & Daniella Silva: Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school .
February 11. Brittny Mejia: Department of Homeland Security must provide ‘constitutionally adequate healthcare’ at ICE detention center, judge rules .
February 13. Mike Hixenbaugh: ‘Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this’: A family’s nightmare in ICE detention. A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine .
February 15. Christian Balderas: Judge rules ICE medical neglect made detention unconstitutional, Filipino man released: A Filipino man was begging for months to go to the hospital after a “stabbing” pain in his stomach. He ended up with a bone infection and an amputation .
February 19. The New York Times: ‘Our Patients Are More Frightened and Sicker Than Ever.’
March 2. Kate Wells: Some families afraid of ICE are forgoing medical care. These volunteers help them .
March 4. Nicole Acevedo: ICE confirms a measles outbreak in the nation’s largest detention facility in Texas .
March 26. Susan Du: Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice .
March 24. Kate Morrissey: Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence .
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June 6. Jasmine Garsd: In recorded calls, reports of overcrowding and lack of food at ICE detention centers .
October 31. Claudia Lauer: Senate report details dozens of cases of medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers .
November 6. Associated Press: Judge orders improvements at a Chicago immigration facility after claims of inhumane conditions: ‘People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets,’ judge says .
December 17. The ACLU: Inside an ICE Detention Center: Detained People Describe Severe Medical Neglect, Harrowing Conditions .
December 17. Brittny Mejia: ‘I am afraid that I might die here’: ICE detainee fears ‘imminent death’ without lifesaving care, lawyers say .
Image: ICE recruitment poster, from SPLC .
This page is part of a resource collection: Tracking ICE During the Second Trump Administration .
Resources
Wikipedia: ICE recruitment during the second Trump administration .
News: 2026
January 13. Austin Campbell: DHS Used Neo-Nazi Anthem for Recruitment After Fatal Minneapolis ICE Shooting .
January 15. Peter Aitken & Leonardo Feldman: Ex-Proud Boys Leader Responds to Claims He Joined ICE .
January 21. Reuters: Fact Check: Former Proud Boys leader Tarrio was never employed by ICE, says DHS spokesperson .
January 22. Sasha Abramsky: ICE Recruiters Are Using Neo-Nazi Memes and Seeking Out Extremists at Gun Shows: The Department of Homeland Security is actively recruiting from the far right as it seeks to hire 10,000 ICE agents .
January 24. CBS News: How ICE is using far-right subculture to recruit .
January 25. Jonathan Montpetit: ICE nodding to far-right extremists in recruitment posts, experts say: U.S. immigration enforcement agency memes look familiar to far-right groups .
January 27. Kali Holloway: Whom Is ICE Actually Recruiting? ICE has lowered standards to facilitate a massive hiring spree. Many of the new recruits are plainly unqualified. Are some also white supremacists or domestic terrorists?
January 30. Ali Breland: Meet the New Proud Boys: The far-right group’s views and tactics are now emulated by federal agents .
February 23. David Nakamura & Sarah Blaskey: Ex-ICE instructor testifies that agency slashed officer training, lied to Congress: A former instructor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told congressional Democrats the agency has cut “vital classes” from mandatory training for recruits .
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June 12. Konstantin Toropin & Thomas Novelly: Pentagon Encourages Troops to Join Immigration Enforcement, Border Security Job Training Program .
July 17. Shirin Ali: A Former ICE Official Is Worried the Agency Is About to Go on a Spree of Hiring Proud Boys .
August 2. Jessica Washington: Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents .
August 6. Sean Michael Newhouse: Trump administration cuts age limits for ICE agent recruits .
August 6. David Dayen: FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE: Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs
August 7. Ximena Bustillo & Ailsa Chang: ICE is recruiting federal workers, offering bonuses to hire thousands of workers .
August 28. SPLC: Homeland Security deploys white nationalist, anti-immigrant graphics to recruit .
September 2. Sam Levin: ‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers .
October 8. Carrie Schreck: How the Border Patrol Uses Rodeos to Recruit: At fairgrounds full of young men, the government sets up shop to hire immigration agents .
October 22. Julia Ainsley & Didi Martinez: Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting: The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards .
December 31. Drew Harwell & Joyce Sohyun Lee: ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires .
Image: from Journalist Taken Out of Courthouse in Stretcher After Shove From Masked ICE Agent .
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News: 2026
January 30. Richard Luscombe: Press freedom groups denounce arrests of two journalists including Don Lemon after Minnesota anti-ICE protest: Groups say arrests of ex-CNN anchor and Georgia Fort are ‘extremely alarming’ and an ‘attack on the first amendment.’
January 30. PBS News: Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis .
February 5. Georgia Fort: I Was Arrested for Doing My Job as a Reporter. Who’s Next?
February 18. Pranav Baskar: Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program: An Associated Press reporter was hit and held with three other journalists and a lawyer, two detainees said, while at a center for migrants secretively deported from the United States .
March 5. Mikeie Honda Reiland: Nashville Reporter Who Has Detailed ICE Activity Detained in South Nashville Stop .
March 6. The Associated Press: ICE arrests US Spanish-language news outlet reporter without warrant. Estefany Rodriguez Florez of Nashville Noticias, who had produced reports that were unflattering to ICE, was arrested during traffic stop .
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August 21. George Chidi: Ice’s detention of Atlanta reporter seeks to ‘silence him’, ACLU petition says. Continued detention of Mario Guevara is retaliation for his reporting and violates his first amendment rights, filing says .
September 29. CBS Chicago: Journalists endure force by agents while covering ICE activity in Broadview .
October 1. MS NOW: ‘You could hear the slam’: Journalist shoved to ground by ICE at immigration court .
October 1. Democracy Now! ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan .
October 8. Freedom of the Press Foundation: Independent journalists must be protected from ICE attacks .
October 9. Jack Jenkins: Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists .
October 11. Lucy Campbell: Chicago TV journalist pushed to ground and arrested during Ice raid .
October 26. Michael Sainato: ICE detains British journalist after criticism of Israel on US tour .
December 12. Timothy Pratt: ‘They attacked my religion, my faith’: Muslim photojournalist detained by ICE speaks out: Ya’akub Vijandre, held in ICE detention in Georgia, tells Guardian he is concerned for safety of family and friends .
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