John,
Before the violence comes the infrastructure. ICE cannot terrorize neighborhoods, raid homes, or abuse people in custody on its own. It can only do these things if major corporations agree to power the system behind it.
Verizon is one of them.
Through a 10-year, $176 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, Verizon supplies the communications infrastructure that facilitates raids, detention centers, and deportations.
Communications infrastructure is not neutral. It is essential. Without corporate partners supplying phones, networks, data services, and logistical support, ICE could not carry out violent raids, operate sprawling detention centers, or deport people at scale. Verizon is enabling violence on the streets and death behind barbed wire.
This is corporate complicity.
Send a direct message to Verizon to end its contracts with ICE and stop profiting from violence and abuse.
Verizon knows public perception matters. Corporations spend billions cultivating trust, safety, and reliability as brand values — especially when selling domestic phone and internet services to families. Verizon does not want to be seen as the company underwriting civilian killings like those of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Verizon does not want its brand associated with record numbers of deaths in custody. It does not want to be linked to detention sites with names like “Alligator Alcatraz” that are rife with abuse. This is not an image Verizon wants attached to its logo.
Abuse continues because powerful corporations keep supplying the tools that make it all possible. Last year, deaths in ICE custody reached a 20-year high. The first days of 2026 brought more. Medical neglect, isolation, and overcrowding are routine. Systems like this can only survive when respected institutions keep them running.
Tell Verizon to end its contracts with ICE and stop profiting from violence, detention, and abuse.
Thank you for pressuring Verizon to force a choice between profits and public accountability.
Robert Reich
Inequality Media Civic Action
