The mechanism: When ICE detains more people, tracks more cases, or biometrically screens more travelers, the visible story is Palantir's case-management software or GEO Group's bed space. The invisible story is the enterprise plumbing that has to scale first — networks, identity databases, cybersecurity monitoring, help desks, and the systems-integration contracts that keep DHS's back office from falling over. That work is dominated by a small set of legacy "EAGLE"-era prime contractors, and Leidos is the biggest of them. It has held DHS enterprise IT and cybersecurity task orders continuously since the original EAGLE II vehicle, including Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) cybersecurity work across DHS components and NextGen security-operations-center support — the unglamorous recurring revenue that scales with headcount and case volume regardless of which political party is running enforcement policy. Congressional immigration-enforcement funding surges (detention capacity, biometric vetting, case-management throughput) don't just buy handcuffs and beds — they buy servers, identity-verification pipelines, and the contractors who keep them patched and running. That's a durable, appropriations-driven revenue stream, not a one-off award.