"The same day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, a little-known airline named Avelo announced that it would no longer fly deportation flights. Though the announcement was overshadowed by the news in Minneapolis, it is a major victory: The biggest commercial carrier of kidnapped and detained souls is ending its estimated $150 million contract with ICE."
"Like the historic grape boycott or the more recent Tesla Takedown movement, it required a mix of local and national organizing, direct action, and political pressure alongside the better-known boycott. Organizers targeted an ICE-enabling contractor with a public-facing brand, financial fragility, and political dependencies. This was not a symbolic protest - it was leverage. It sent a definitive signal to other commercial airlines to keep distance from ICE deportations and opened space for pressure on other ICE enablers."
On the same day an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good, Avelo announced it would stop flying deportation flights, ending its estimated $150 million contract with ICE. The decision followed a campaign that combined local and national organizing, direct action, political pressure, and consumer pressure. Activists exposed a previously quiet DHS contract after discovering Avelo planned deportation flights, noting the carrier's Connecticut headquarters, public subsidies, and profit motive. Organizers leveraged Avelo's public brand, financial fragility, and political dependencies to pressure other commercial airlines to distance themselves from ICE deportations and to challenge other ICE enablers.
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