"Customers of Citizens Bank may not know that when they deposit money into their accounts, they are indirectly supporting ICE and its abusive behavior," Laura Cassenti of MA/CT Stop Avelo said. "Citizens Bank is profiting from abuse. No company should profit from pain."
Groups to protest Citizens Bank sites for financing DHS detention centers Updated: Mar. 06, 2026, 12:38 p.m.|Published: Mar. 06, 2026, 12:26 p.m.
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Iranian national Pejman Karshenas Najafabadi, 59, died in ICE custody earlier this week. His was the 11th in-custody death that we know of in 2026.
That amounts to an average of one detained death approximately every six days, writes Austin Kocher: austinkocher.substack.com/p/third-ice-...
NEW from @bostonglobe.com:
"After successfully pressing Avelo Airlines to end deportation flights for the federal government, anti-ICE protesters are ramping up pressure on another corporate target: Providence-based Citizens Bank."
“Camp East Montana will remain open.”
Big news.
Citizens Bank finances ICE detention giants GEO Group and CoreCivic, which runs the facility where Emmanuel Damas died.
We'll be out at 65+ branches tomorrow to shine a light on the bank's role in the suffering of our neighbors.
Join us: www.de-icecitizensbank.org#map
Please share w/ anyone who might be interested! And if y'all plan any actions around this, will be happy to support however possible.
Lots of info & resources at boycottcitizens.org and www.de-icecitizensbank.org
There are a few dozen Indivisible groups and several others working on a pressure campaign around this on the East Coast (where Citizens has a huge regional presence), but I know engagement varies a lot. Figuring out the landscape from afar is tough, so I appreciate the insight.
Kristi Noem’s firing is long overdue. She oversaw vile crimes against humanity and we’ll never forget it.
But until ICE is abolished and expelled from our communities, we keep fighting.
Lawless federal agents kidnapping and killing people on our streets can never be normalized.
“Citizens Bank continues to bankroll companies that are cashing in on the explosion of immigrant arrests and incarcerations across the country. While other banks have ended their relationships with prison companies, Citizens is doing the opposite.”
Maryland & Florida, Citizens Bank is still backing ICE detention companies. Join to let 'em know it's time to stop financing GEO Group and CoreCivic.
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By "golden age of travel," I assume she's talking about those FIVE luxury planes?
"Organizers said that Citizens Bank is known for being community centered and socially responsible, yet it undercuts its own mission by continuing to fund [The GEO Group and CoreCivic]."
Based on a community tip and reporting by @newsday.bsky.social, we are adding the leased office space at 30 Barretts Ave, Holtsville, NY to our list of watched detention sites.
Full story at: www.10news.com/news/local-n...
Headline from ABC 10 News San Diego: "San Diego County supervisors prepare lawsuit over blocked Otay Mesa detention center inspection"
"What are they hiding? Is it the lack of clean drinking water that we've heard about in letters from detainees, is it the medical neglect that has led to preventable emergencies, or is it the fact that a private for-profit corporation is running a facility that can't pass a basic health inspection?"
"If we want to protect our community, we must confront ICE through every avenue, looking not just at the agency itself, but the institutions like hotels, tech firms, private prisons and banks which enable its operations."
CoreCivic
ICE detention financier Citizens Bank is expanding its private bank business quickly in CA w/ offices in L.A., Menlo Park, Mill Valley, Newport Beach, San Diego, & San Francisco
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The Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE, has been stonewalling the agency's federal watchdog in its attempts to conduct oversight.
This is yet another reason DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must go. #ImpeachNoem https://bit.ly/4b68YFA
In October 2018, ICE issued a penalty against CoreCivic for the deaths of Efrain de la Rosa and Jean Jimenez, both of whom died at the Stewart Detention Center in 2017 and 2018 respectively.133 These financial penalties totaled 40% of CoreCivic’s monthly “Bed day detention” invoice for May 2017, or an estimated total of approximately $1.4 million, and a 20% deduction of the same for July 2017, or approximately $700,000. 134 In comparison, ICE paid CoreCivic $441 million for detention contracts in 2017.135 One month after issuing this penalty, ICE awarded CoreCivic a new contract to provide medical care to detainees at Stewart. Between 2017 and May 2024, ten people detained at Stewart died in ICE custody, the highest number of detention deaths in the entire nation. Despite that record, Stewart remains fully operational as an ICE detention facility.
And integral to their business model.
Four of the five deadliest ICE facilities are run by CoreCivic, and the worst they've seen is a slap on the wrist.
Fairly sure Texas Republicans invented weaponized incompetence.
"May Emmanuel’s memory inspire a renewed commitment to justice and humanity in all our institutions," Ellis wrote.
3/3
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Hospital photo of a man lying in a bed with breathing tubes, a nasal tube, and medical monitoring wires attached to his chest. Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVbqrooD_hb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Chandler, AZ City Councilmember Christine Ellis announced his death in an IG post earlier today.
This is the reality of medical neglect in ICE detention.
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Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.
Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.
A tooth infection.
1/3
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It's from a new dashboard that looks at deaths in ICE custody all the way back to 2003.
It distinguishes between publicly & privately run facilities, but not between operators, so I should note that my observation is based on who is *currently* operating the facilities.
Caption: 10/10
Hey Citizens Bank! We’ll see you Saturday 3/7 at 65 branches in a dozen states, from VA to VT. Stop financing inhumane ICE detention centers! www.de-icecitizensbank.org
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#iceout
@boycottcitizens.org
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Table titled “Top facilities” listing immigration detention centers with the highest reported deaths: Eloy Detention Center (Arizona) – 17 deaths; Krome North Service Processing Center (Florida) – 14; Stewart Detention Center (Georgia) – 14; Otay Mesa Detention Center (California) – 10; Houston Contract Detention Facility (Texas) – 9.
Four of the five deadliest ICE detention facilities are operated by one company: CoreCivic.
More at uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
