Ethan Corey

Palantir executives donated more money to Democrats than Republicans. They donated a total of about $880,000 to 67 Democratic members of Congress and about $420,000 to 48 Republicans. The five executives at ICE contractors who donated the most amount of money to members of Congress were Palantir’s Karp, Mehdi Alhassani, Shyam Sankar, and Akash Jain, as well as GEO Group CEO George Zoley.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from Palantir, the private prison industry, and other companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. This story was published in partnership with In These Times. The Trump administration has doled out billions of taxpayer dollars to corporations tasked with carrying out its mass deportation agenda. Many of these same companies have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to sitting members of Congress, according to an investigation by The Appeal.

Find out if your representatives have taken cash from the companies fueling ICE’s mass deportation efforts. Leading for-profit prison companies donated about half a million dollars to Republican members of Congress currently in office, and $57,000 to Democratic congressmembers, from 2021 through 2025, according to an investigation by The Appeal. Executives at these firms have also donated millions of dollars to candidates, political parties, and political action committees (PACs).