Ice Breakers
Frontline Resistance Against the Corporate Backbone of ICE
ICE Breakers is a flagship campaign of the Grassroots Activist International Association (GAIA) confronting the corporate infrastructure that enables ICE and ERO’s detention, deportation, surveillance, and criminalization of immigrant communities. Rather than focusing only on policy reform, this campaign targets the companies that profit from and materially sustain enforcement systems exposing them, pressuring them, and making complicity a lasting public liability.
ICE Breakers is not an abstract campaign. It is a frontline effort built by people who organize in the streets, in encampments, in neighborhoods, and in the canvass. People who live the impacts of the systems we are challenging.
Every Death Star Has a Weak Spot.
Where We Come From
ICE Breakers was born in 2019 in Portland, Oregon. Out of protest camps, street mobilizations, and door‑to‑door canvassing. We were formed by people who were already organizing in the streets and needed a structure that reflected how movements actually grow: horizontally, collectively, and from the ground up.
From the beginning in partnership with Grassroots Activist International Association, The ICE Breakers has been:
Horizontally structured — no top‑down hierarchy, shared leadership and accountability
Community‑driven — strategy shaped by directly impacted people
100% member‑funded — powered through canvassing in the communities we serve
Frontline‑rooted — built by organizers who show up where harm is happening
We didn’t start in boardrooms. We started in encampments, marches, and doorways, listening, organizing, and building power one conversation at a time.
Today, ICE Breakers operates out of:
Portland, Oregon (our founding city)
San Diego, California
Los Angeles, California
ICE Breakers carries this DNA. It exists because frontline organizers and impacted communities demanded a strategy that actually weakens the machinery of deportation…Not just criticizes it.
Why ICE Breakers Exists
ICE does not function on its own. It depends on:
Private detention contractors
Corporate logistics and supply chains
Technology and data companies
Hotels, transportation services, and facilities
Advertising and recruitment platforms
These relationships keep enforcement systems funded, operational, and normalized.
ICE Breakers exists to break that chain… By making corporate collaboration with ICE publicly visible, politically toxic, and economically risky.
When corporations lose public trust, customers, and stability because of their ties to ICE, the system itself begins to crack.
How It Works:
Since 2018 we have been working at targeting small-to-mid-sized companies first, and scaling up.
Phase One: Exposure
We identify and publicly expose corporations contracting with ICE/ERO or aiding in enforcement, detention, and deportation.Phase Two: Escalation
We launch creative direct actions, community pressure campaigns, and coalition outreach, Increasing in intensity.Phase Three: Disruption
We build to globally visible, high-impact, nonviolent direct actions aimed at disrupting the entire supply chain that powers ICE.
Why It Matters
ICE relies on local contracts and private partnerships to operate. That means we can hit them where it hurts. Not just through policy, but through grassroots disruption of their infrastructure.
When corporations stop working with ICE, ICE can’t function.
Get Involved Now
📝 [Sign the Petition] — Tell corporations: drop ICE contracts now.
📣 [Join the Action Team] — Get trained, take the streets.
🤝 [Partner With GAIA] — Coalition groups welcome.
💸 [Fund the Fight] — Become a monthly donor and power direct action.
ICE BREAKERS is a project of GAIA // Grassroots Activist International Association
Built by organizers. Backed by community. Aimed at ending corporate complicity in deportation and detention.
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