
These companies bring grief and tragedy to people who came here to raise their children in safety and to live normal lives. Changing our habits is a bit uncomfortable; being held in a prison-for-profit is certainly worse. Given their government contracts a boycott will not influence these companies financially but may prove sufficiently embarrassing to alter their behavior. If you do business with any of these companies, boycott! There are alternatives.
GlobalX operates 74% of all ICE deportation flights. A five-year contract worth $65 million annually. Six-hour flights with no water or food and frequently broken bathrooms.
Palantir got $30 million to link all of ICE's databases together, connecting IRS records, immigration files, and private data so agents can surveil anyone from a single screen.
Clearview AI got $10 million for facial recognition searches across 30 billion images scraped from the internet.
AT&T secured $90 million for telecom infrastructure. AT&T has received $3.8 billion in federal contracts from 2022 to 2024, of which $382 million were contracts for Homeland Security. One of these contracts, worth $146 million over 10 years, serves as the digital backbone for Trump's deportation machine. There are many alternatives to AT&T.
Cellebrite got $11 million and Magnet Forensics got $3 million to crack into phones. Paragon got $2 million to deploy spyware that silently harvests Signal and WhatsApp messages.
Fivecast received $4.2 million for AI software that builds "digital footprints" and tracks "shifts in sentiment and emotion" to determine how much of a risk you are.
ShadowDragon got paid to monitor 200 websites and provide "persistent access" to Facebook and Twitter. Motorola got $6 million for license plate readers. Meta is selling Ray-Ban video recording sunglasses that ICE agents are now wearing in the field.
Home Depot
From 2018 to 2024 the CEO's salary was 464 times that of the median HD worker's paycheck. The collective compensation (excluding vested stock and exercised options) of the top five Home Depot executives from 2018 to 2024 was $251 million. Home Depot has spent over $17 million to influence elections and $24 million lobbying members of Congress. There is every appearance of collaboration with ICE given that ICE is met with no HD resistance in kidnapping immigrants in HD parking lots all over the country.
Hilton corporate policy is to do business with ICE agents which is no different from a policy to serve brown shirts: cowardly and complicit.
Amazon spent $8 million in the last decade to influence federal elections; $161 million lobbying Congress; gave $1.9 million to trump's inaugural committee. One single contract for the National Security Agency (NSA) was worth $10 billion. But many of these services are used across government agencies and are vital to ICE's surveillance, crackdown, and deportation operations. Don't order any goods online and don't shop at Whole Foods.
Citizens Bank provides financing to CoreCivic and The GEO Group, which are major operators of for-profit prisons and ICE detention centers. Is there a more loathsome, immoral undertaking than prisons-for-profit?
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