After ICE agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, activists have targeted not just the agency, but also companies doing business with it. That includes the St. Louis-based car rental company Enterprise Mobility. Action Network said it had sent more than 5,336 letters to the company urging it to cease leasing its cars to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In Minnesota, Business Insider reports, organizers encouraged people to reserve cars and then cancel the bookings as a way to disrupt the company’s operations.
Those protests have spread locally. At a Jan. 27 protest in downtown St. Louis, a short drive from the company’s headquarters in Clayton, signs read, “Enterprise Stop Providing ICE Vehicles.”
Enterprise did not respond to multiple emails seeking comment over the course of a week. The National Catholic Reporter said that an order of Los Angeles-based nuns had met with Enterprise officials to express their concerns about the company supplying ICE with vehicles, and that the company didn’t deny it. The Sisters of Social Service, which had leased cars from Enterprise since 2021, said it was cancelling its contract as a result…