<p>Raids by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement have made national headlines. But behind ICE’s operations, a sprawling web of private companies – from global powerhouses to niche family-run businesses – have secured hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts. Peter Andringa from the FT’s visual investigations team spent months crawling through federal documents and data sets to put together a picture of the companies that make up this web.&nbsp;</p><br><p>Clips from ABC7 News Bay Area, CBS 6 Albany, C-SPAN, Donald J Trump, Fox 26 Houston, Fox Nashville, Fox News, NBC Connecticut, The New York Times</p><br><p>The FT does not use generative AI to voice its podcasts.</p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -&nbsp;</p><br><p><strong>For further reading:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown</a></p><p><a href="https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trump’s immigration data dragnet</a></p><p><a href="https://ig.ft.com/us-deportation-flights" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights</a></p><br><p><strong>For further listening:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/33e43b0b-c004-4ed2-b2db-8874b41ac275" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Palantir’s relentless rise</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/540dd0d5-a3b2-4482-adde-f88a734260ad" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US uses private data to track immigrants</a></p><br><p>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -&nbsp;</p><br><p>Follow Peter Andringa on X (<a href="https://x.com/peterjandringa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@peterjandringa</a>), or on Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/peter.andringa.me" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@peter.andringa.me</a>)&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ft.com/michela-tindera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michela Tindera</a> is on X (<a href="https://twitter.com/mtindera07" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mtindera07</a>) and Bluesky (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/mtindera.ft.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mtindera.ft.com</a>), or follow her on LinkedIn for updates about the show and more.&nbsp;</p><br><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/e866adaf-07c6-4be1-b543-e3aafc2ef116" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</strong></a></p><br><p><br></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>