More Than 880 Google Workers Demand Company Cut Ties With ICE and CBP
More than 880 employees and contractors signed a petition Feb. 6, 2025, calling on Google to disclose and cancel any contracts with ICE and CBP.
Overview
More than 880 Google employees and contractors signed a petition on Feb. 6, 2025, urging Google to disclose and cancel all contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, organizers said.
Organizers said the petition was prompted by the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and Border Patrol agents and by nationwide protests over immigration enforcement.
Google declined to comment on the petition's demands, and an anonymous Google spokesperson told reporters that DHS uses "basic cloud infrastructure services" available to any customer.
No Tech for Apartheid organized the petition, which workers said follows prior actions including a 2019 Google petition signed by nearly 1,500 employees and an industry letter with more than 1,000 signatories, organizers said.
Employees demanded an all-hands meeting, protections from immigration enforcement near workplaces and "red lines" limiting DHS use of Google tools, and said they will escalate if leadership does not respond, organizers said.
Analysis
Center-leaning sources frame the story by foregrounding employee protest voices (e.g., the quoted 'abhorrent'), prioritizing their demands for Google to cut ties with DHS/ICE/CBP and spotlighting Google–Palantir links, while omitting corporate and agency responses. These editorial choices emphasize moral outrage and institutional complicity rather than presenting countervailing perspectives.
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The employees demanded that Google disclose all contracts and collaborations with CBP and ICE, divest from these partnerships, host a Q&A session on government contracts, acknowledge dangers to workers from immigration enforcement, and protect all Googlers including cafeteria and data center staff.
Google declined to comment on the petition's demands, with an anonymous spokesperson stating that DHS uses basic cloud infrastructure services available to any customer.
The petition was organized by No Tech for Apartheid, prompted by fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti by ICE and Border Patrol agents, and nationwide protests over immigration enforcement.
More than 880 Google employees and contractors signed it, with reports of over 800 signatures in under 48 hours from full-time employees, nearly 30% Google Cloud workers, and additional support from over 250 workers at Amazon, Spotify, Oracle, Apple, and PayPal.
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