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The enforcement machine turns public money into raids, detention, deportation flights, and private contracts. None of this is inevitable. Follow the evidence, know your rights, and help move resources from punishment into the communities that keep us safe.
Selected appropriations: $45B for detention in the 2025 law plus $38.525B for ICE in the 2026 law. The full ICE total across both laws is $113.375B.
What could communities build instead?Evidence, not euphemisms
Source dates
detention 2026-07-11 · custody deaths 2026-06-04 · enforcement deaths 2026-07-13
ICE count on 2026-07-11. Background trend: HRW/PHR series through 2026-04-02.
26,189 people in ICE's “other immigration violator” category.
312 deaths in ICE custody 81 killed by ICE, CBP or Border Patrol agents
* 2026 is a partial year. Detention deaths come from ICE FOIA reports compiled by Basu et al. (JAMA 2026) plus HRW/PHR tracking; agent killings come from Mapping Police Violence.
Explore the Detention Mortality DashboardIllustration: the selected $83.525B appropriations above divided by HRSA's 2025 average total accrued health-center cost of $1,671.85 per patient. It shows scale, not a formal budget projection.
The enforcement machine on one map. Every layer is a different dataset, every color a different kind of evidence — toggle them, zoom in, click anything.
Report data: DeportationTracker.live + People Over Papers community submissions. Facility data: ICE public detention stats. Verify before sharing. Full map, filters and report links
The detention economy in one place: the operators holding people, the public companies selling surveillance and detention services, and the executives and contractors around them.
43% of GEO revenue comes from ICE contracts. Its subsidiary BI Incorporated runs the ankle-monitor program supervising 180,000+ people — and told investors it can scale "to several hundreds of thousands or even millions." Source ↗
30% of CoreCivic revenue comes from ICE. It gave $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural fund in December 2024; nine new or expanded ICE contracts followed by June 2025. Source ↗
Palantir built ICE's case-management and biometric systems. Its CEO has said he is "proud" to work with ICE; its chairman co-founded it after Palantir's early funding came from the CIA's In-Q-Tel. Source ↗
Documented: GEO, CoreCivic, their PACs and executives gave ~$2.8 million to Trump's 2024 campaign and inaugural fund. The 2025 budget bill answered with a $45 billion ICE detention budget — and nine new or expanded contracts by June. CREW analysis ↗
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