[ [link removed] ]Stand with Googlers and tell Google: #NoTechforICE

The petition to Google reads:
"End your contract with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Do not
be complicit in Trump's racist system of abuse and neglect."

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Dear John,

[ [link removed] ]Stand with Googlers and
tell Google: #NoTechforICE

Google is powering Trump's abusive deportation machine.

Recent reports reveal that Google has a nearly $750,000 contract to
provide cloud services to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS).^1 USCIS is supposed to be a service focused agency for
immigrants, but under the Trump regime, it is acting as an extension of
ICE and CBP, helping to carry out deportation traps.^2 By working with
USCIS, Google is supercharging Trump's war on immigrants. We must put a
stop to this dangerous collaboration now.

Hundreds of Googlers and other tech workers have signed an internal
petition demanding that the company end its contract with USCIS. Will you
add your name to help turn up the pressure?

[ [link removed] ]Tell Google: Publicly commit to not support racist immigration
agencies. Click here to sign the petition.

Time and time again, Google publicizes its commitment to creating an
ethical technology. Google's AI principles state that the company will not
build technology "whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of
international law and human rights."^3 What immigration agencies are doing
at our border is in absolute violation of human rights and international
law. By working with them, Google is violating its own values.

Hypocrisy on Google's part is only one layer of the issue. Giving tech
services to immigration agencies only enables them to violate human rights
faster. Technology automates mass atrocity and tech firms are part of an
ugly history. During World War II, IBM directly supplied Nazis with
technology used to transport millions of people to concentration camps.^4

The situation with Google is no different. The Trump regime is hurtling us
toward authoritarianism and criminalizing people based on the color of
their skin and the country in which they were born. In fact, USCIS
recently changed its mission statement from "securing America's promise as
a nation of immigrants" to "protecting Americans, securing the homeland
and honoring our values."^5

History is telling and very clear. We need to raise our voices with Google
employees to tell Google that the time to say no is right now or risk
being on the wrong side of history.

Tell Google: Stop enabling human rights violations. Click the link below
to sign the petition:

[ [link removed] ][link removed]

Thanks for fighting back,

Jelani Drew, Campaign Manager
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Colin Lecher, "[ [link removed] ]Google is helping to power a US immigration cloud
project, new documents show," The Verge, Aug. 29, 2019.
 2. AILA Policy Brief, "[ [link removed] ]Seven Ways USCIS Is Defying the Will of
Congress," Feb. 25, 2019.
 3. Kim Hjelmgaard and Alan Gomez, "[ [link removed] ]America is no longer a 'nation of
immigrants'," USA Today, Feb. 23, 2018.
 4. Colin Lecher, "[ [link removed] ]Google employees ‘refuse to be complicit’ in border
agency cloud contract," The Verge, Aug. 14, 2019.
 5. Sundar Pichai, "[ [link removed] ]AI at Google: our principles," Google, June 7,
2018.
 6. Oliver Burkeman, "[ [link removed] ]IBM 'dealt directly with Holocaust organisers',"
The Guardian, March 29, 2002.

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