""In cities across the country we have witnessed these agencies conducting paramilitary-style raids, kidnapping hundreds of civilians, and murdering protestors and legal observers,""
""As the workers who provide the foundational labor in building this technology, we are horrified,""
""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.""
""campaign of surveillance, violence, and repression.""
More than 1,000 Google employees signed an open letter demanding divestment from partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The letter alleges paramilitary-style raids, kidnappings of civilians, and killings of protestors and legal observers by those agencies. It identifies Google products being used in enforcement operations, citing Cloud for surveillance infrastructure, the Play Store blocking ICE tracking apps, and YouTube running ads encouraging immigrants to "self-deport." Workers demand public acknowledgement of risks, answers about opaque contracts, worker safety measures on campuses, and defined "red lines" for future contracts. Organized employee dissent could disrupt operations despite representing a small fraction of the global workforce.
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