FYI, Boycotting Wayfair *Isn't* the Best Way to Help Migrants

Seriously, why can’t we have nice things? Online home store Wayfair has become the latest company to be called out for some no-good-very-bad-deeds. But this time, it started with the company’s own employees, who walked off the job on June 26 to protest Wayfair’s deal to provide government contractors with beds for the camps that house detained migrants at the United States border. Yeah, *those* camps.

First, what’s up with Wayfair? Whoever said shopping isn’t political is 100% wrong. As with many bad things in the world right now, the source of the Wayfair walkout leads back to Washington and the Trump administration. Since his election, President Trump has taken a strict stance on migrants fleeing across the Mexico/U.S.

The GOP has supported building mass concentration camps on the southern border. Kids & families are dying.We can’t do that. They‘ve shown that when they get more money, they build more camps. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/DYhXuU9CrzBut what does that have to do with your couch? A lot. Through a contract with BCFS Health and Human Services, a Texas not-for-profit organization, Wayfair reportedly sold $200,000 worth of bedroom furniture to furnish a detainment camp in Carrizo Springs, Texas.

Wayfair is confirmed to be selling beds to the border camps! Employees asked for the order to be canceled and management said no. Everyone deserves a home they can feel safe and loved in, especially children, no matter where they're from.

The real change seems to come from targeting bad companies in a strategic, carefully planned campaign, one that prioritizes the movement over the outrage of a moment and attacks their reputation—not their bottom line.

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