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John,
Corporations are enabling ICE’s violence against our communities.
Around the country, people are pressuring corporate collaborators to break ties with ICE.
The movement has pushed companies to stop running deportation flights, stop renting rooms to federal immigration agents, and stop airing recruitment ads for ICE.1
Let’s keep going. Major corporations profiting off and enabling ICE terror include:
Amazon’s cloud services power ICE data and surveillance operations.
AT&T and Verizon provide communications infrastructure and data analytics for ICE. They each have contracts worth over $140 million with ICE.
Google and its subsidiary YouTube are running vile, racist ICE recruitment ads on their platforms. Google also hosts a CBP app that identifies and targets immigrants using facial recognition. Meanwhile, Google removed community-created ICE-tracking apps from its store.
Home Depot has allowed ICE to use its parking lots and stores for its violent kidnapping operations. The company uses AI license plate readers to share our data with surveillance systems used by police and ICE.
Microsoft sells technology to the Department of Homeland Security and holds direct and indirect contracts with ICE. It provides software as well as IT and cloud services for mass surveillance and illegal abductions, and it suppresses employee protests that call out its complicity.
Palantir―owned by billionaire Peter Thiel―provides analytics tools and databases that support ICE targeting and surveillance.
Corporations are susceptible to public pressure campaigns, and they need to keep hearing from us.
Click here to send a message to the CEOs and executives leading these corporations, demanding they immediately end their contracts with ICE and stop profiting off of ICE violence.
At the request of Minnesota activists, people have also held sit-ins and protests at Target stores across the country.
One of Minnesota’s largest employers, Target has been conspicuously silent on ICE violence across the state—simply calling to “de-escalate tensions” without even mentioning ICE, the murders of Renee Good or Alex Pretti, or ICE attacks on its own employees.
As our immigrant neighbors are forced into hiding and ICE kidnaps and locks up our neighbors, one of the ways we can protect each other and weaken ICE is by demanding corporations refuse to cooperate with ICE.
Take action today by sending a quick message to the CEOs and executives of corporations that are complicit in ICE’s terror campaign: End your contracts and protect our rights!
We will continue to defend each other and our rights. We will continue to demand the society and government that everyone deserves, with freedom and resources for all.
In solidarity,
Rashida
1 Here’s How We Pressured an Airline to End Its Contract With ICE
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