ICE-Cold Cash
The Appeal and In These Times are publishing a searchable database of campaign contributions made to current members of Congress from the top contractors for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) either through the company’s Political Action Committee (PAC) or executives during the 2022, 2024, and 2026 election cycles.
Our analysis only includes contributions made to committees directly controlled by the candidates. Over that period, executives at ICE’s biggest contractors donated more than $1.7 million to more than 160 members of Congress.
Legislators who have agreed to donate or return contributions received from Palantir and/or reject future donations are marked with an asterisk in the database.
Methodology
The Appeal reviewed Federal Election Commission (FEC) records to determine contributions made by ICE contractors’ PACs and top executives. The analysis only includes contributions made to PACs directly controlled by the candidate for the 2022, 2024, and 2026 election cycles.
The Appeal reviewed FEC filings for donations made by 13 ICE contractors:
- Acquisition Logistics
- Akima Global Services
- Atlantic Diving Supply
- CoreCivic
- CSI Aviation
- GEO Group
- LaSalle Management
- Management & Training Corporation (MTC)
- MVM
- NANA Regional Corporation
- Palantir Technologies
- Paragon Professional Services
- Tribalco
The list is derived, in part, from POGO’s report on ICE’s top 10 contractors.
Individual Contributions
The Appeal searched for donations made by the company’s top executives and high-dollar donors.
We searched for donations made by CEOs and CFOs for publicly traded companies Palantir, GEO Group, and CoreCivic; and for privately owned companies ADS (formerly known as Atlantic Diving Supply), CSI Aviation, NANA Regional Corporation, Akima Global Services, and Tribalco.
For MTC, we searched for donations made by founder Robert Marquardt’s grandson, MTC President Dan Marquardt, and Robert’s son, CEO Scott Marquardt. Robert died in 2012.
For Acquisition Logistics we searched for donations made by Kenneth Wagner, the company’s founder, president, and CEO.
For LaSalle Corrections, we searched for donations made by CFO Tim Kurpiewski, along with co-owners William McConnell and his son, Clay McConnell. We also searched for donations made by the company’s former executive director, Rodney Cooper, who died in a plane crash last year. It does not appear Cooper has been replaced.
For Paragon, we searched for donations made by the president, Daniel Graham. Paragon is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bering Straits Native Corporation (BSNC.)
For MVM, we searched for donations made by CEO Kevin Marquez.
The database also includes executives who contributed more than $10,000 to current members of Congress for the 2022, 2024, and 2026 election cycles. Some of these executives have since departed their company, but they were included because the donation was made at the time they were still employed.
PACs
We included donations made by corporate PACs to committees controlled by members of Congress. Of the 13 companies we researched, we identified only three corporate PACs—CoreCivic, GEO Group, and MTC—that made donations to legislators.
Seven of the examined companies did not make any campaign contributions that fit The Appeal’s criteria, either through a PAC or via executives: Acquisition Logistics; Tribalco; NANA Regional Corporation; MVM; Atlantic Diving Supply; and Paragon Professional Services.
The Appeal was not able to identify PACs for Acquisition Logistics; MVM; Atlantic Diving Supply; LaSalle Corrections (or LaSalle Management); Tribalco; CSI Aviation; and Paragon.
The Appeal identified PACs for NANA Regional Corporation (NANAPAC) and Palantir (Employees Of Palantir Technologies Inc. PAC), but did not identify any donations that met the criteria for inclusion in the database.