Every day, ICE is abducting, detaining, and deporting our community members—ripping people from their homes, jobs, and families. As of September 2025, ICE held more than 59,762 people in detention, and almost half of them have no criminal record at all.¹

LexisNexis—a popular research tool—is helping ICE make all of this happen. LexisNexis is paid $22.1 million to provide ICE with data and tools to surveil, detain, and deport noncitizens.² Internal documents show that more than 11,000 ICE agents, including deportation officers, rely on LexisNexis to track, vet, and target people.³

Universities across the country are paying for LexisNexis subscriptions, which means they are directly funding ICE’s mass deportation machine. If we put enough pressure on universities to cancel their contracts, we can show LexisNexis that the public refuses to let them profit from ICE’s deportation dragnet.

Take action: Tell universities to end ties with LexisNexis now!

Sources:

1. TRAC Immigration, “Immigration Quick Facts,” Syracuse University, Accessed September 30, 2025.

2. LexisNexis’s contract with ICE as unjust enrichment. University of Colorado Law Review, 95(4), 1209–1250.

The following universities are among many that currently hold LexisNexis subscriptions:

• American University Washington College of Law
  
• Binghamton University
• Boston University School of Law
• Brown University
• Columbia University
• Cornell University
• Dartmouth College
• Duke University School of Law
• Emory University
• Georgetown School of Law
• Harvard University
• Pepperdine University
• Princeton University
• Seattle University School of Law
• Seton Hall University
• Seton Hall University School of Law
• Stanford University
• SUNY Purchase College
• UC Davis School of Law (King Hall)
• University of Arizona
• University of California, Berkeley School of Law
• University of Central Florida
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan Law School
• University of North Carolina System
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of San Diego School of Law
• University of South Florida
• University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
• USC Gould School of Law
• Wake Forest University School of Law
• Yale University