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Posted on 02/08/2026 12:31:14 PM PST by DFG
More than 900 Google workers have signed an open letter condemning recent actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), urging the tech giant to disclose its dealings with the agencies and divest from them.
The letter, citing recent ICE killings of Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, said that the employees are “appalled by the violence” and “horrified” by Google’s part in it.
“Google is powering this campaign of surveillance, violence, and repression,” the letter reads.
It goes on to cite that Google Cloud is aiding CBP surveillance and powering Palantir’s ImmigrationOS system, which is used by ICE. The letter states that Google’s generative artificial intelligence is used by CBP and that the Google Play Store has blocked ICE tracking apps.
The letter also quotes a social media post by Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean from early January, who wrote, “We all bear a collective responsibility to speak up and not be silent when we see things like the events of the last week.”
“We are vehemently opposed to Google’s partnerships with DHS, CBP, and ICE,” the employees wrote. “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 letter calls on Google to acknowledge the danger that workers face from ICE, host an emergency internal Q&A on the company’s DHS and military contracts, implement safety measures to protect workers — such as flexible work-from-home policies and immigration support — and reveal its ties with the government agencies to help all involved determine where the company will draw a line.
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How Many People Work At Google?
According to the latest available data, there are 183,323 total full-time Alphabet (Google) employees.
I would hate to have a company with those abbreviations as their stock symbols.
“Divesting in ICE” is retard level stupid.
who knew you could invest $ in Gov’t departments. ROI can’t be that great, can it?
its interesting that these 900 employees believe they can tell google leadership how to drive the company?? never in 40 pluse years of working did i ever thing i could tell the c-suite how to run the company
Just ask the Clintons.
Well dang! I didn’t know we could buy stock in ICE/CBP. Or is there an IPO coming out. 🤔😂👍
Yes, you can buy a share of the taxpayers’ cash flow. It’s all outgo of course, but if we can just work through the last 20 million illegals that number should start coming down.
good point
Nearly a thousand Google workers need to be fired.
They would be fired if I was ceo.
That’s because many of them are foreigners who violated their H1B visas.
it seems the low IQ headline-writers at CNBC don’t know what “divest” means.
I guess only Google is allowed to spy on people?
I smell some “AI-related” layoffs coming soon at Google. My brain 1.0 predicts about a thousand employees.
““Google is powering this campaign of surveillance, violence, and repression,” the letter reads.
Hopefully next week Google will be powering the unemployment line.
I support ICE. The law is the law.
Orrr... Nearly a thousand Google workers mass sign a letter of resignation.
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