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Question: Investigate US Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Search LDA for "Lobbying contacts with 'Customs and Border Protection' AND 'Immigration and Customs Enforcement' AND 'Transportation Security Administration' by same registrant within 90-day periods". Would reveal coordinated multi-component DHS lobbying that doesn't appear in consolidated DHS searches. Report any findings as factual claims with dates and evidence.
Date: 2026-04-12
The investigation did not uncover clear evidence of systematic coordinated lobbying across multiple DHS components by the same registrants within 90-day periods as originally hypothesized. However, the research revealed that the current DHS funding crisis has exposed the interconnected nature of DHS components and their shared operational dependencies. While some evidence exists of technology companies like Smiths Detection lobbying multiple DHS agencies, and individual filings show coordination around radio procurement for both CBP and ICE, a comprehensive pattern of multi-component DHS lobbying coordination was not definitively established through the available LDA database searches. The investigation was limited by the complexity of searching the LDA database for specific cross-agency patterns and the current disruption to normal lobbying disclosure operations due to the ongoing DHS shutdown. Further investigation would require more targeted database queries and access to complete quarterly filings to establish whether coordinated multi-component DHS lobbying represents a systematic pattern that circumvents consolidated oversight.