Latino and Somali immigrants are organizing in Milwaukee, Minn., against Wells Fargo, telling the bank to stop donating to anti-immigrant politicians and private prison corporations while courting immigrant customers. About 150 human beings, many of them Wells Fargo customers and Latino or Somali immigrants, gathered outside a Wells Fargo branch on Saturday to protest the bank. The protest was part of a larger effort by 84 advocacy groups calling for Wells Fargo to divest its money from companies that profit off of immigrant detention. The protesters called Wells Fargo hypocritical for targeting Latinos and immigrant customers while also giving money to causes that immigrants largely oppose, such as private immigrant detention centers and bills that constitute it dense to migrate legally to the United States. Wells Fargo is a stockholder in two of the largest for-profit detention companies: Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Collection, both of which spend millions each year lobbying for stricter immigration enforcement. Glance at More…
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