DC wants Amazon to stop powering ICE
ICE is attacking DC and communities across the country. ICE depends on our federal tax dollars to carry out these attacks. It also depends on hundreds of private companies to provide key services.
One of those companies is Amazon. Amazon provides cloud computing and data integration services to ICE. The agency depends on these services to power its detentions and deportations.1
Amazon's founder and Executive Board Chair is far from politically neutral about this. Jeff Bezos has increasingly aligned himself with the Trump Administration's agenda — including by exerting pressure at The Washington Post, which he owns.2
Amazon also earns billions of dollars each year from local governments like DC through contracts for procurement.3 And it owns nearly 100 consumer brands including Amazon.com, Whole Foods, Zappos, and Ring Cameras.4 Amazon depends on our money, and that means we have power.
Sign the petition
DC doesn’t want ICE’s attacks and we don’t want to support companies making them possible.
Sign the petition to Amazon’s Board Chair Jeff Bezos to join our demands to the company.
More ways Amazon is hurting DC
Powering ICE is only one of the ways Amazon is hurting DC communities. Here’s more information about the company’s impact locally:
Increasing our Pepco bills — Starting in July 2025, residential Pepco customers will be charged 18% more in supply charges each month due to “increasing demand for electricity by new, high-usage regional data centers.” [Cite]
Stealing money from DC-area workers — In February 2025 Amazon paid a $3.95 million with the DC Attorney General for misleading DC consumers “by assuring them that 100% of tips would go to Amazon Flex delivery drivers when in fact much of the tips were diverted to reduce Amazon’s labor costs and increase profits.” [Cite]
Discriminating East of the River — A lawsuit filed by the DC Attorney General in December 2024 alleges that Amazon has secretly excluded ZIP codes east of the Anacostia River from Prime delivery while continuing to charge 48,000 Prime members living there the full subscription price. [Cite]
Price fixing that hurts local DC businesses — The DC Attorney General is currently suing Amazon over “its illegal control of online retail prices that hikes prices for consumers, kills innovation, and hurts small businesses.” An appeals court decided in August 2024 that the case can move forward. [Cite] [Cite]
Donating to politicians attacking Home Rule — Amazon and the Bezos family spent nearly $17 million on the 2024 election cycle. Together, more than two-thirds of Amazon and the Bezos’ PAC total spending went to Republicans. [Cite]
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1 Hao, K. (2018, October 22). "Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown." MIT Technology Review. Available at https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/22/139639/amazon-is-the-invisible-backbone-behind-ices-immigration-crackdown/. And: Haskins, C. (2022, September 28). "Google and Amazon ignore employee protests and plow ahead with deals involving the US military, ICE, and CBP." Business Insider. Available at https://www.businessinsider.com/google-amazon-quietly-contract-dod-ice-cbp-employee-protests-2022-9
2 Lapowsky, I. (2025, April 30). "Everything We Know So Far About Jeff Bezos’s Relationship With Donald Trump." Vanity Fair. Available at https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/jeff-bezos-relationship-with-donald-trump. And: Malone, C. (2025, May 12). "Is Jeff Bezos Selling Out the Washington Post?" The New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/26/is-jeff-bezos-selling-out-the-washington-post
3 Mitchell, S. And LaVecchia, O. (2018, July 10). "Amazon’s Next Frontier: Your City’s Purchasing." Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Available at https://ilsr.org/articles/amazon-and-local-government-purchasing/
4 SMB Compass. (2022, June 15). "Everything Owned by Amazon." Available at https://www.smbcompass.com/everything-owned-by-amazon/