Google Employees Call on Company to End ICE, CBP Contracts
ICE agents depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Feb. 4.
Photographer: John Moore/Getty ImagesMore than 900 employees at Alphabet Inc.’s Google have signed a petition demanding that the company sever ties with the US Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts.
The petition cites Google contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, the two DHS agencies that have led the deportation effort. Fatal shootings of two US citizens in Minneapolis in recent weeks have accelerated opposition to the administration’s push to deport undocumented immigrants.