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What you can do to stop big corporations from helping ICE

You are not powerless. You can stop their complicity in this humanitarian disaster.

EL CENTRAL by EL CENTRAL
February 12, 2026
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Many of you tell me you feel powerless in the face of Trump’s reign of terror. You view and read horrific news reports about what ICE and Border Patrol are doing, but you don’t know how you can reduce or stop this horror.

Let me assure you: You’re not powerless. In fact, you have enormous power.

Start with ICE and Border Patrol detention facilities, now holding some 70,000 people in 224 facilities across the country that reportedly are rife with abuses. Last year, deaths in ICE custody reached a 20-year high. The first days of 2026 brought more deaths. Medical neglect, isolation, and overcrowding are routine.

CoreCivic (formerly Corrections Corporation of America) is the largest owner and operator of ICE and Border Patrol detention centers. It has a record of abusing detainees. Among the detention centers CoreCivic lists on its website is the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. In December, The Intercept reported that there were at least 15 medical emergency calls to 911 from the Stewart facility every month since the start of the second Trump administration.

If you’re as outraged about this as I am, here are five things you can do now.

1. You and I are paying CoreCivic through our tax dollars. You can demand that our senators and representatives in Congress not fund the Department of Homeland Security until these abuses stop.

At this moment, congressional Democrats are trying to condition their votes for the Department of Homeland Security’s spending bill on placing guardrails around ICE and Border Patrol.

You might contact your senators and representatives and urge them not to vote for funding of the Department of Homeland Security. Or at the least, demand that in order to receive funding, their agents cannot wear masks, must wear identification, cannot use racial profiling, must have search warrants, cannot use lethal force, and must give arrestees due process, and that those detained must receive adequate medical care and accommodation.

You can reach your senators and representatives through the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

2. You may own CoreCivic indirectly. You can withdraw your savings from institutional investors that are financing it.

CoreCivic is a public-held corporation, meaning that it’s listed on the stock exchange. We may not own its shares directly, but many of us entrust our savings to institutional investors such as Black Rock and Vanguard, which own significant shares in CoreCivic.

Black Rock accounts for 16 percent of CoreCivic’s total shares. Vanguard Group Inc. holds 12 percent. They are CoreCivic’s largest shareholders. As such, they have the most influence (other than the federal government’s Department of Homeland Security, if DHS were acting responsibly) over how CoreCivic runs its detention facilities.

Find out if your savings are held by one or both of these two giant institutional investors. (Check with your broker or look at the reports they send you.) If they are, you might instruct your broker to withdraw your savings from them and put them in another institution that doesn’t hold shares of CoreCivic.

3. You may support the Democratic Party, specifically the Democratic Governors Association — which has been accepting donations from CoreCivic. You can contact the DGA and tell it to stop accepting such donations.

A Politico review of campaign finance records published Saturday shows that the Democratic Governors Association has taken in hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from CoreCivic. These are not charitable contributions by CoreCivic, but attempts by CoreCivic to influence state legislation.

From 2017 through at least 2025, the DGA took in $1,246,050 over 46 donations from CoreCivic. The most recent publicly reported donation to the DGA came in May 2025, according to records, around the same time White House officials began pressuring ICE to ramp up arrests.

The Republican Governors Association has undoubtedly taken in as much if not more donations from CoreCivic, but I’m assuming that more of us are affiliated with, or at least more influential in, the Democratic Party than the Republican.

You can contact the Democratic Governors Association and tell them to stop taking donations from CoreCivic. You can reach them by writing to the Democratic Governors Association, 1300 Eye Street NW, Suite 1200 West, Washington, D.C. 20005. Or telephone them at (202) 772-5600.

4. You can also express your outrage directly to CoreCivic — and tell them you refuse to support them with your tax dollars or your investment savings. Write them directly at CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027. And phone them toll-free at 1-800-624-2931.

5. In addition to your power as a taxpayer, investor-saver, and voter, you’re also powerful as a consumer. Although you don’t purchase CoreCivic’s detention services directly, you buy from corporations that every day enable CoreCivic, ICE, and Border Patrol to do their nefarious work.

For example, ICE’s latest recruitment ads — built around music and language drawn straight from far-right neo-Nazi memes and aimed at extremists who are most fervent about guns, tactical gear, and vigilantism — are being distributed by and are profiting two companies you probably use all the time: YouTube and Google.

Meanwhile, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, and Microsoft are providing ICE and Border Patrol with cloud computing, surveillance software, and logistical support that’s central to how they function. This corporate collaboration makes large-scale enforcement possible.

And Verizon — through a 10-year, $176 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE — supplies the communications infrastructure that facilitates raids, detention centers, and deportations.

Without these corporate partners, ICE could not carry out violent raids, operate sprawling detention centers, or deport people at scale. These corporations are enabling violence on the streets and death behind barbed wire.

Yet these corporations also spend billions of dollars each year on their brand images and public relations in order to attract your consumer dollars. None wants to be seen as underwriting civilian killings like those of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. None wants its brand associated with record numbers of deaths in custody. None wants to be linked to detention sites with names like “Alligator Alcatraz” that are rife with abuse.

Your consumer dollars are critical to these corporations. So, at the least, you can demand that they stop profiting from their collaborations with ICE. (Click on the word “demand” in the previous sentence to send them a message.)

And tell Verizon to end its contracts with ICE and stop profiting from violence, detention, and abuse.

You can go a step further and boycott the giant corporations now helping ICE. Visit www.boycottcitizens.org/ice

In these and many other ways, you are powerful. As a consumer, saver-investor, taxpayer, and voter, you keep these corporations going.

Together, we’re even more powerful. We need not tolerate their complicity in the inhumane acts now being done by ICE, Border Patrol, and Trump’s Department of Homeland Security.

You are not powerless. You can take action now. Please do.

Lo que puedes hacer para impedir que las grandes corporaciones ayuden a ICE

No estas indefenso. Puedes frenar su complicidad en este desastre humanitario.

Muchas personas me dicen que se sienten sin poder ante el reinado de terror de Trump. Ven y leen reportes noticiosos alarmantes sobre lo que están haciendo ICE y la Border Patrol, pero no saben cómo pueden ayudar a reducir o detener este horror.

Permítame decirle algo con claridad: usted no está indefenso. De hecho, tiene un poder enorme.

Comience con los centros de detención de ICE y la Border Patrol, que actualmente mantienen a unas 70,000 personas en 224 instalaciones en todo el país que, según reportes, están llenas de abusos. El año pasado, las muertes bajo custodia de ICE alcanzaron su nivel más alto en 20 años. Los primeros días de 2026 trajeron más muertes. La negligencia médica, el aislamiento y el hacinamiento son algo rutinario.

CoreCivic (antes Corrections Corporation of America) es el mayor propietario y operador de centros de detención de ICE y la Border Patrol. Tiene un historial de abusos contra personas detenidas. Entre los centros que CoreCivic enumera en su website está el Stewart Detention Center en Lumpkin, Georgia. En diciembre, The Intercept reportó que hubo al menos 15 llamadas de emergencia al 911 cada mes desde esa instalación desde el inicio de la segunda administración de Trump.

Si usted está tan indignado como yo, aquí hay cinco cosas que puede hacer ahora mismo.

  1. Usted y yo estamos pagando a CoreCivic con nuestros impuestos. Puede exigir a sus senadores y representantes en el Congreso que no financien al Department of Homeland Security hasta que estos abusos se detengan.
    En este momento, los demócratas en el Congreso intentan condicionar sus votos para el proyecto de gastos del Department of Homeland Security a la imposición de límites claros sobre ICE y la Border Patrol.
    Puede comunicarse con sus senadores y representantes y pedirles que no voten a favor de financiar al Department of Homeland Security. O al menos exigir que, para recibir fondos, sus agentes no usen máscaras, porten identificación visible, no utilicen perfiles raciales, tengan órdenes de cateo, no usen fuerza letal, garanticen el debido proceso a las personas arrestadas y proporcionen atención médica y condiciones adecuadas a quienes estén detenidos.

Puede comunicarse con sus senadores y representantes a través de la línea central del U.S. Capitol al (202) 224-3121.

  1. Tal vez usted sea dueño indirecto de CoreCivic. Puede retirar sus ahorros de los inversionistas institucionales que la están financiando.
    CoreCivic es una corporación que cotiza en la bolsa. Puede que no tengamos acciones directamente, pero muchos confiamos nuestros ahorros a inversionistas institucionales como Black Rock y Vanguard, que poseen participaciones importantes en la empresa.

Black Rock controla el 16 por ciento de las acciones totales de CoreCivic. Vanguard Group Inc. posee el 12 por ciento. Son sus accionistas más grandes. Por lo tanto, tienen gran influencia —aparte del Department of Homeland Security si actuara con responsabilidad— sobre cómo CoreCivic opera sus centros de detención.

Averigüe si sus ahorros están invertidos con uno o ambos de estos gigantes financieros. Revise con su asesor o los reportes que le envían. Si es así, puede instruir que retiren su dinero y lo coloquen en otra institución que no tenga acciones de CoreCivic.

  1. Tal vez usted apoya al Partido Demócrata, en particular a la Democratic Governors Association, que ha aceptado donaciones de CoreCivic. Puede contactarlos y pedirles que dejen de aceptar ese dinero.
    Una revisión de Politico de los registros de financiamiento de campañas muestra que la Democratic Governors Association ha recibido cientos de miles de dólares en donaciones de CoreCivic. No son aportaciones caritativas, sino intentos de influir en la legislación estatal.

De 2017 a por lo menos 2025, la DGA recibió $1,246,050 en 46 donaciones de CoreCivic. La donación pública más reciente fue en mayo de 2025, aproximadamente cuando funcionarios de la Casa Blanca comenzaron a presionar a ICE para aumentar los arrestos.

La Republican Governors Association seguramente ha recibido tanto o más dinero de CoreCivic, pero es más probable que muchos de nosotros tengamos más influencia dentro del Partido Demócrata.

Puede escribir a la Democratic Governors Association en 1300 Eye Street NW, Suite 1200 West, Washington, D.C. 20005, o llamar al (202) 772-5600 para pedir que dejen de aceptar donaciones de CoreCivic.

  1. También puede expresar su indignación directamente a CoreCivic y decirles que se niega a apoyarlos con sus impuestos o sus ahorros de inversión. Escríbales a CoreCivic, 5501 Virginia Way, Suite 110, Brentwood, TN 37027. También puede llamar gratis al 1-800-624-2931.

  2. Además de su poder como contribuyente, inversionista y votante, usted también tiene poder como consumidor. Aunque no compra directamente los servicios de detención de CoreCivic, sí compra a corporaciones que todos los días facilitan el trabajo de CoreCivic, ICE y la Border Patrol.
    Por ejemplo, los anuncios más recientes de reclutamiento de ICE —con música y lenguaje tomados de memes de extrema derecha y dirigidos a personas extremistas aficionadas a las armas y el vigilantismo— se distribuyen y generan ganancias para dos empresas que probablemente usted usa a diario: YouTube y Google.

Mientras tanto, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon y Microsoft proporcionan a ICE y la Border Patrol servicios de computación en la nube, software de vigilancia y apoyo logístico que son clave para su funcionamiento. Esta colaboración corporativa hace posible la aplicación masiva de operativos.

Y Verizon —mediante un contrato de 10 años y $176 millones con el Department of Homeland Security, incluyendo ICE— suministra la infraestructura de comunicaciones que facilita redadas, centros de detención y deportaciones.

Sin estos socios corporativos, ICE no podría realizar redadas violentas, operar amplios centros de detención ni deportar personas a gran escala. Estas corporaciones están facilitando violencia en las calles y muertes tras el alambre de púas.

Al mismo tiempo, estas empresas gastan miles de millones de dólares cada año en su imagen y relaciones públicas para atraer sus dólares como consumidor. Ninguna quiere ser vista como financiando muertes de civiles. Ninguna quiere que su marca se asocie con cifras récord de muertes bajo custodia. Ninguna quiere quedar vinculada a centros de detención con reputación de abuso.

Sus dólares como consumidor son esenciales para estas corporaciones. Por lo menos, puede exigirles que dejen de lucrar con sus colaboraciones con ICE.

Y también puede decirle a Verizon que termine sus contratos con ICE y deje de beneficiarse de la violencia, la detención y el abuso.

Puede ir más allá y boicotear a las grandes corporaciones que hoy ayudan a ICE. Visite www.boycottcitizens.org/ice

De estas y muchas otras maneras, usted tiene poder. Como consumidor, ahorrador-inversionista, contribuyente y votante, usted mantiene en marcha a estas corporaciones.

Juntos tenemos aún más poder. No tenemos que tolerar su complicidad en los actos inhumanos que hoy realizan ICE, la Border Patrol y el Department of Homeland Security bajo Trump.

No estas indefenso. Puede actuar ahora. Házlo.

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