In open letter, nearly 1,000 Google employees call for firm to cut ties with ICE

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In open letter, nearly 1,000 Google employees call for firm to cut ties with ICE

By Soumili Ray
Publication Date: 2026-02-08 09:34:00

Nearly 1,000 Google employees recently signed a petition where they demanded the company to cut alleged ties with the US department of homeland security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection CBP).

Seeking more signatures from employees in the letter that is titled ‘Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency’, employees said that they would send the letter to the company leaders and try to get a wide response on the issue. (Getty Images via AFP)

The petition alleged that Google’s technology was being used to fuel the recent violence in the country, including the killing of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti. “Google is powering this campaign of surveillance, violence, and repression. Cloud is helping to stitch together CBP surveillance systems along the border and nationwide, while also powering Palantir’s ImmigrationOS system that ICE uses to track immigrants,” the petition read.

The employees also claimed that…