Canadian Firm With No ICE Experience Just Won $704 Million Arizona Warehouse Contract

GardaWorld Federal Services is reshaping America's deportation infrastructure — and the government barely blinked.

WASHINGTON — Before GardaWorld became a household name in the immigration enforcement industrial complex, it was moving cash between banks. Armored trucks. Vaults. Coin counting. Now it’s moving people.

The Montreal-based private security conglomerate — through its U.S. arm, GardaWorld Federal Services LLC — has quietly muscled its way into one of the most lucrative and consequential federal contracting arenas in a generation: the mass detention and processing of migrants inside the United States.

In March 2026, the Department of Homeland Security awarded GardaWorld a contract to convert a warehouse in Surprise, Arizona — an industrial building never designed for human habitation — into an ICE processing and detention center capable of holding roughly 1,500 people. The initial one-year award: approximately $313.4 million. With options extending through February 2029, the potential total value reaches an estimated $704 million.

That is not a typo. A company whose primary federal resume in…