Excellent analysis this week from Peter Andringa, Clara Murray, Stephen Foley and Rafe Rosner-Uddin at the Financial Times revealed that government contractors have received $22 billion in contracts from the Trump administration’s immigration crack down. These contracts have been primarily awarded by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which received an enormous fudning boost from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. According to the FT, ICE and CBP spending on private contractors has exploded in recent months:
The windfalls come as ICE spending on contracts has more than doubled to $3.7bn in the two quarters following the passage of Trump’s landmark bill, compared with $1.5bn in the previous six months.
Spending by CBP on private-sector contractors increased sevenfold between the first and second halves of 2025. The agency has reported almost $2bn in new contracted work this month alone — more than in the entire first half of 2025.
The FT reckons that the largest beneficiary so far has been Fisher Sand & Gravel, headed by Republican donor Tommy Fisher, which has received more than $6 billion since July to build portions of a wall along the US-Mexico border.
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