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A look at the companies profiting from their work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Protests and boycotts against companies working with ICE escalated this summer as increasingly harrowing reports continued to emerge about the agency’s family separation policy, faulty and insufficient family reunification plans, and inhumane conditions inside detention facilities, including denying beds, soap, adequate food, and medical care to detained immigrants. Campaigns against GitHub, Amazon, Wayfair, and Palantir—all companies that have worked with ICE in one way or another—have garnered attention online and offline. But while those and a small handful of other ICE-associated companies have faced pressure to cut business ties with the agency, AT&T has not been subjected to the same level of scrutiny.They’re not alone either. For now, hundreds of other businesses that profit from ICE’s $6 billion tax-funded budget are flying under the radar.Do you work at ICE or one of the companies that works with them? We want to hear from you. Email Leila Ettachfini from a non-work computer at leila.ettachfini@vice.com.Sign up for our newsletter to get the best of VICE delivered to your inbox daily.