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Over 1,000 Google employees signed a petition on Feb. 6 calling on the tech company to acknowledge and take action against the state-sanctioned “violence that workers face each day” being perpetrated by federal immigration agencies, and divulge information regarding Google’s contracts with these organizations, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“We are vehemently opposed to Google’s partnerships with DHS, CBP, and ICE. We consider it our leadership’s ethical and policy-bound responsibility to disclose all contracts and collaboration with CBP and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships,” the petition said.
What’s happening? The Google employees who signed the petition are “appalled by the violence inflicted by the United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP).” They’re not alone: 46% of US adults want to abolish ICE, according to January data from market research firm YouGov. Another 60% of US adults “disapprove” of the actions ICE is taking as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown, PBS News/NPR/Marist Poll data found, and 65% think ICE has “gone too far.”
With this petition, Google employees may be “...
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