In the latest round of “shut it all down” politics, Leftist progressive activists are urging AT&T to cut off its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) – because deportations are harder when nobody can make a phone call.
An email circulating from MoveOn claims AT&T is helping ICE function by providing network access, data services, and communications infrastructure. Translation: the agency uses phones, internet, and databases – like every other organization in America. And the Democrats want it to stop.
MoveOn tells their supporters in an email, “We need to make it impossible for corporations like AT&T to operate like it’s business as usual while ICE agents terrorize our communities, murder our neighbors, and violate our rights with impunity. If they won’t cut ties with DHS because it’s the right thing to do, we need to make it financially unviable for them to continue their contract this September. And that means leveraging our consumer power.”
Activists argue that pulling the plug would “undermine ICE’s operations” and that’s exactly what they are aiming to do.
The campaign frames ICE as a rogue operation and paints corporate partners as accomplices, pushing Leftist consumers to flex their “people power” and pressure AT&T into walking away from an extension to a contract worth more than $74 million.
Bottom line: in today’s political tug-of-war, even your cell signal has to be on one political side or another. And if Leftist activists get their way, the next thing getting dropped won’t be a call, but immigration enforcement itself – which is their goal.