Thousands of people around the country have joined a boycott of a passenger airline profiting off President Donald Trump’s mass deportation machine.

Now, activists are calling on Democratic elected officials to put pressure on Avelo Airlines, the Houston-based low-cost carrier at the center of the controversy, by ending subsidies and airport leases until it cuts off U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

They are making headway in places like New Haven, Connecticut, which has forbidden its employees from using city funds on Avelo. Elsewhere, however, activists have received the silent treatment from officials like Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, whom they have asked to cancel Avelo’s contract to fly out of the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

Since mid-May when

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