Customers and activists are turning up the heat on Citizens Bank over its ties to two companies that operate Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers.
Organizations including the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, Newport Democratic Citizens Committee and Greater Cleveland Congregations, as well as two Democratic Massachusetts state representatives, have all either defunded their Citizens accounts or pledged to do so if the bank doesn’t reconsider financing CoreCivic and the GEO Group, which each operate numerous ICE detention centers.
Organizers for the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition said Citizens has given CoreCivic and GEO $2.5 billion in financing, and that more than 20 people have died in the care of ICE facilities owned by these groups…