5 Top ICE ‘Corporate Collaborators’ Saved $19 Billion in Taxes Under Trump: Report

“While masked officers terrorize communities—smashing into cars, harassing citizens, and inflicting violence with impunity—Trump’s corporate backers are laughing their way to the bank.”

Protestors rally against Palantir’s cooperation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) deportation regime on June 13, 2025 in Los Angeles.
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Brett Wilkins
Jan 21, 2026
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A campaign launched Wednesday by an economic justice coalition highlights how five major US corporations saved a collective $19 billion in annual tax cuts under President Donald Trump, while also aiding in his Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.

Americans for Tax Fairness’ (ATF) “ICE Corporate Collaborators: Exposed” campaign details how five corporations that “received massive tax breaks paid for by healthcare cuts” under Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) are now “making money through contracts to help the Trump administration terrorize communities” as part of the president’s deadly anti-immigrant purge.



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“Today we launched our corporate accountability campaign to give citizens the information they need to hold giant corporations accountable for their complicity in the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies,” ATF executive director David Kass said in a statement.

The report notes that five companies—Amazon, AT&T, Home Depot, Microsoft, and Palantir—“helped ICE track, detain, and deport families” while they saved a total of $19 billion in annual corporate taxes under the OBBBA, and their CEOs “collectively received an estimated $124 million in personal tax giveaways.”



Amazon’s cloud computing services, the authors wrote, “have become vital to ICE’s crackdown on immigrants, with their data storage being used for mass surveillance and deportation.”

AT&T, which received $382 million in Department of Homeland Security contracts between 2022-24, “serves as the digital backbone for Trump’s deportation machine.”

Home Depot “has appeared to be collaborating with Trump’s ICE mass immigration sweeps on their property, putting thousands of customers and employees’ safety at risk.”

Microsoft—which gave the Trump Inaugural Committee $750,000 in 2024—has received at least $45 million in homeland security-related contracts in recent years.

Palantir has partnered with ICE to use the company’s artificial intelligence system to identify, track, and deport suspected undocumented immigrants—and is reportedly helping the government build a database of Americans’ private information in likely violation of multiple laws.

These and other companies have been the target of protests and boycott campaigns. These can work—Spotify stopped running ICE recruitment ads and Avelo Airlines ended its contract for deportation flights amid public pressure.

ATF estimates that Palantir CEO Alex Karp—who “received an estimated cumulative ordinary income of $3.3 billion from 2019 through 2024”—personally saved an estimated $85.7 thanks to the OBBBA’s tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans.

Karp is followed by Microsoft’s Satya Nadella ($25.4 million in estimated tax savings), Amazon’s Andy Jassy ($6.9 million), AT&T’s John Stankey ($3.2 million), and Home Depot’s Edward Decker ($2.9 million).

“While masked officers terrorize communities—smashing into cars, harassing citizens, and inflicting violence with impunity—Trump’s corporate backers are laughing their way to the bank,” Kass said.

“As Trump and his billionaire-backed GOP majority cut billions in healthcare, Medicaid, and SNAP benefits, Americans face steep hikes in the cost of living to pay for tax giveaways to large multinational corporations and the billionaires that run them,” he added. “The American people will not be silent.”

Dems scolded by their own as ICE funding bill barely passes House

Robert Davis  Matt Laslo
January 22, 2026 

 RAW STORY


A federal agent holds a crowd-control weapon, following an incident where a civilian's car was hit by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 12, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans

Some Democrats erupted on Thursday after the GOP-controlled House of Representatives voted to pass a bill to continue funding President Donald Trump's immigration regime.

The House passed a bill that will keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement funded through at least Sept. 30 by a 214-213 margin, according to the House Clerk's office. Democrats all voted against the bill because of misgivings about the Trump administration's deportation operations.

The vote all but guarantees that the government will avoid at least a partial shutdown ahead of the Jan. 30 funding deadline.

Some Democrats told Raw Story they are furious with the way the party fought against the bill.

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-CA) said he thought Democrats would "fight much harder than this" to defeat the bill.

"What we're seeing right now is people being yanked off the streets, people being disappeared in a sense, and to allow that to continue by basically having the same funding in place, I think it's wrong."

The bill passed by the House keeps ICE's funding level at $10 billion per year. House Democrats had sought a significant reduction in funds following the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA) also warned that the situation with ICE appears likely to get worse before it gets better. He referred to the no-knock warrants ICE has been serving across the country, including to U.S. citizens.

"It's just gotten so much worse," Gomez said. "In Minnesota, you're seeing people of any background, you're seeing [ICE] go to their house, just pull up and ask them for ID."

Matt Laslo has covered Congress since 2006, bringing Raw Story readers the personalities behind the politics and policy straight from Capitol Hill. Based in Washington, D.C., Matt has been a long-time contributor to NPR, WIRED, VICE News, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, and Playboy. More about Matt Laslo.