While thousands of New Yorkers protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, the city is paying millions to private companies profiting from the crackdown.
At least eight companies hold active contracts with both ICE and New York City agencies, according to a Documented analysis of U.S. Department of Homeland Security and city procurement records. The city contracts, many worth tens of millions of dollars, cover a variety of services and span agencies from the New York City Police Department to the Department of Social Services and the Fire Department.
In total, companies that work with ICE are collecting at least $260.4 million from New York City taxpayers, according to Documented’s analysis. This number could be much higher, as many firms including tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon reportedly sell their software to ICE through third-party contractors, and are often not listed in contract databases.
Documented compiled this data by downloading records of DHS contracts and matching companies found on the federal agency’s site with companies listed on Checkbook NYC, a transparency tool from the New York City Comptroller’s office that tracks the city’s finances.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been an outspoken critic of ICE and called for the abolition of the agency. The escalation of immigration enforcement nationally has put a spotlight on the ways the city supports those operations — even indirectly.
“Any firms that are shared between city agencies and ICE spark concern, given all of the sidestepping of New York’s sanctuary laws that ICE is able to accomplish,” Will Owen, the communications director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York-based privacy and civil rights group that advocates against mass surveillance, said.
Some of the companies are directly tied to immigration enforcement, including one of NYPD’s largest vendors: the weapons company Axon Enterprise. Axon supplies stun guns, body cameras, and other equipment to federal, state, and city law enforcement agencies.
New York City has $124.2 million in active contracts with Axon, according to city records. At the federal level, Axon executives lobbied for a slice of the Trump administration’s $64 billion DHS spending bill and the company now holds multi-year contracts with agencies including ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
In September 2025, DHS approved a $25.6 million adjustment to an existing Axon contract to support its Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs, which oversees weapons and training for ICE agents, according to federal data.
New York City has already paid Axon $23 million for the fiscal year 2026, which started on July 1, 2025. The company, most famous for developing the Taser, expects to make roughly $2.7 billion in revenue for 2025, according to a recent company forecast.
Beyond the NYPD, Axon holds contracts with the Department of Homeless Services, the Department of Finance, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. The city’s contract just for Taser equipment is worth $54.79 million.
Besides weapons companies, the consulting giant Deloitte has ongoing contracts with the city. One contract that began in 2023, to provide services to the city on an as-needed basis, is worth a total of $10 million.
In 2025, Deloitte also secured $632.2 million in contracts with ICE. One of the contracts dedicated $39.1 million to “analytic support services” for ICE enforcement removal operations at the Pacific Enforcement Response Center (PERC) in Laguna Nigel, California.
PERC touts itself as giving 24/7 real-time intelligence to 17 field offices across 42 states and two territories, according to a 2019 DHS report. “PERC’s proactive targeting focuses on removable criminal aliens who pose a threat to national security and public safety,” the report says.
Back in 2018, employees at Deloitte called for the company to cut its ties with ICE, citing “moral objections” to ICE as an institution.
Representatives for Axon and Deloitte did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The NYC Mayor’s office did not respond to Documented’s request for comment.
Other companies that contract with both ICE and New York City include the accounting services firm Ernst & Young and the IT contractor Accenture.
Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Migration Policy Institute, argues that whoever the city decides to contract with should align with its ethics and principles.
“Any company that engages in ICE’s abusive enforcement operations should be barred from getting a contract because that’s about our values,” Chishti said, adding: “If the technology and instruments in the hands of private companies are used for ICE enforcement, then the city should exhibit its values. And if those values can be exhibited through the procurement process, they should be; it’s the least we can do.”
Over the last week, protestors have mobilized nationwide and in New York, demanding the abolition of ICE after federal agents killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis and detained 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos while he was on his way home from school.
Organizers from groups like the Sunrise Movement have protested at Hilton hotels in Minneapolis and NYC, criticizing the hotel giant for allegedly housing ICE agents carrying out the Trump administration’s violent crackdowns.
On Jan. 27 more than 60 protestors were arrested after occupying the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca blowing whistles and repeating chants like “How do you spell kidnapper? I-C-E.”
“We will not stand by while Hilton houses ICE in our city,” the Sunrise Movement posted on instagram. “As long as Hilton chooses to host fascists, we will disrupt their operations.”
Other cities around the country have also distanced themselves from ICE and boycott companies that work with the agency. Officials in Denver, Colorado, rejected a contract last month from Key Lime Air, an airline company that operated flights for ICE in September, citing the company’s role in immigration enforcement and how the city supports its immigrant neighbors.
Data collected by the Deportation Data Project found that ICE arrested 7,258 individuals in New York State from January to October of 2025. That number has likely climbed. Moreover, a Documented analysis found 60% of the people arrested had never been convicted of a crime or didn’t have criminal charges pending against them.
With the contracts, advocates argue that issues with data sharing are concerning. Owen from S.T.O.P. noted that NYPD shares data with the federal government through various task forces. And while New York City doesn’t participate in Fusion Centers, state-run intelligence sharing hubs that federal agencies including DHS can use at their discretion, many other jurisdictions do.
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“You can’t be both a sanctuary city and a surveillance state,” Owen told Documented. “NY sanctuary laws are not enough currently to prevent collusion between local police and ICE, and we need to ensure there is no data sharing occurring whatsoever among those agencies.”
Correction February 9, 2026: An earlier version of this article misstated New York City’s relationship with fusion centers. The city does not participate in them.
Correction February 11, 2026: An earlier version of this article incorrectly included a company in the list of firms that contract with both ICE and New York City. The biometric technology company Idemia holds contracts with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. It does not have active contracts with ICE.
