"ICE relies heavily on the private sector to help carry out its Gestapo-like crusade against immigrants and their allies. Without the logistical, financial, and political support of business, its capacity to terrorize our communities would crumble. Over the past week, activists around the country successfully pushed Avelo Airlines to stop running deportation charter flights, and workers in Minneapolis pushed a local Hilton affiliate to stop renting rooms to ICE agents."
"Anti-authoritarian scholars and organizers stress that the most important thing for pro-democracy movements to do is to peel away a regime's " pillars of support." Even the most despotic of regimes can't rule without the backing or consent of powerful external institutions. Businesses are society's most important non-state institutions, and most of the biggest ones in America are collaborating with Trump, making themselves a very steady pillar of support for his rule."
ICE depends on private-sector logistical, financial, and political support to carry out deportations and intimidate immigrant communities. Recent campaigns forced Avelo Airlines to stop deportation charters and a Minneapolis Hilton affiliate to stop renting rooms to ICE, demonstrating corporate pressure can yield results. Activists can expand such campaigns through coordinated protests, boycotts, and organizing to pressure companies to sever ties with ICE. Anti-authoritarian strategy emphasizes peeling away a regime's pillars of support by targeting powerful non-state institutions. Large corporations hold immense financial and political power and many collaborate with the current administration, making corporate pressure a strategic lever to limit ICE's capacity.
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