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In response to the terrifying intensification of ICE over the past year, communities are mobilizing to protect each other, publicly denounce ICE, and form campaigns to peel away corporate support of ICE to weaken the various sources of ICE’s financial, political, and reputational power.

Here are six areas that you can dig into to understand possible points of leverage against a corporate enabler of ICE.

1. Start with the corporation’s own website. Who are the key executives and board members that govern the corporation? Publicly traded corporations must file reports with the SEC. These contain lots of helpful information including staff biographies, corporate financials & executive compensation.

3. Look for government contracts With DHS and ICE. You can start by searching the USASpending.gov website which is the official listing of federal awards.

4. Corporations often maintain power by creating partnerships with academic institutions, non-profits, civic organizations, and local governments. Campaigners can pressure local institutions to drop these relationships.

5. Political donations can be a clue as to how a corporation is trying to influence local, state and federal policy agendas. Campaigners can call into question why a given politician accepted this money, in an attempt to peel away the politician’s support from the corporation.