the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Feb 16, 2026
The U.S. government has allocated approximately 10 billion dollars per year to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2020. In 2025, the Trump government, under the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” increased this budget to 29 billion dollars.
Much of this huge sum of ICE money goes to U.S. government contractors.
For comparison, ICE’s current budget exceeds Turkey’s military budget of 27.3 billion dollars. With its 900,000 troops, including reserves, and sophisticated killing machines, Turkey has the largest military in NATO after the U.S. Turkey’s army currently wages a very brutal war against Kurds and Syrians.
Leading American corporations, including Amazon, Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giants GEO Group and CoreCivic, raked in over 22 billion dollars from contracts with ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) last year.
The federal government contracted Fisher Sand & Gravel to build portions of a wall along the southern U.S. border. This company has earned the most from Customs and Border Patrol contracts, receiving more than 6 billion dollars since July. This is a wall against workers.
Another large beneficiary of ICE contracts has been CSI Aviation, a broker of charter flights for the federal government, which has secured more than 1.2 billion dollars in revenues since Trump returned to office last January.
So, ICE is now ready for a very cruel war against workers in the U.S. All these U.S. companies will pocket more money from the taxes we pay.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering to the tune of billions!