De-ICE Hadley and Amherst Protest to Follow No Kings
Following many local No Kings rallies and Saturday March 28, an alliance of local students and Show Up, Sing Out! Singers will lead a tour of seven “corporate collaborators” of ICE. They will march, chant and sing to draw attention to their demands: STOP COLLABORATING WITH ICE! Meet at the Bank of America Building in Amherst (1 South Pleasant Street) at 12:30 p.m.before the Amherst No Kings Rally, or at 3:00 p.m in front of the Target (367 Russell Street -Hampshire Mall) in Hadley.
The protest will target the following seven corporations for their collaborations with ICE. Read the accompanying text to learn why they are targets.
Hilton (340 Russell St.) ICE officers have reportedly stayed at numerous Hilton properties. When Everpeak Hospitality, an independent franchise operator in Minneapolis, canceled reservations for federal agents sent to occupy the city, Hilton revoked its franchise license.
Home Depot (350 Russell St.) is included due to its egregious silence on ICE’s use of its properties as staging areas and for raids. Read more.
AT&T (355 Russell St.) provides communications and maintenance services to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subagencies, including Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to USAspending.gov data, AT&T currently has multiple active contracts with ICE.
Amazon/Whole Foods (327 Russell St.) Amazon’s government cloud platform AWS GovCloud is used to host many of the databases and systems used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its agencies Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to track, monitor, and deport immigrants.”Learn more. Amazon is also partnering with Flock Safety and Axon to requests from law enforcement, including ICE, to access Ring doorbell footage without warrants.
Target (367 Russell St.) has faced growing backlash in recent years – first for donating $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, then for rolling back its DEI policies. On January 8, 2026, when Border Patrol agents assaulted and detained two U.S. citizens inside a Target store in Richfield, Minnesota. In response, residents began protesting at stores, demanding that Target immediately stop cooperating with ICE. The pressure didn’t let up. On February 2, demonstrators returned – this time gathering at Target’s headquarters in Minneapolis, just days after fanning out to 23 separate Target stores across the city – to repeat the same demands. Among them were Target workers themselves, some of whom say they witnessed colleagues taken by agents.
Citizens Bank (inside Stop and Shop at 440 Russell St). Citizens Financial Group has played a key role in financing ICE prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group, even as other major banks cut ties. In January 2026, Citizens helped GEO expand its borrowing capacity by $100 million.
Bank of America (1 South Pleasant St.) has a history of lending to private prison and ICE detention companies. Despite pledging to cut ties with the industry, it has signaled it is willing to resume providing financial services to companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group.
