Tell Google: Stop Enabling ICE

Google workers are sounding the alarm—and the company’s leadership is running out of excuses.

More than a thousand Google employees have signed an open letter demanding that Google cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. 

They are speaking out because they see what leadership refuses to confront: Google’s technology is helping power a deportation machine that tears families apart and tramples basic human rights.

Internal dissent has spilled into public view as workers warn that Google’s cloud services and data tools risk enabling surveillance, raids, and detention. ICE and CBP have long histories of abuse, racial profiling, and operating with little accountability. When Google provides infrastructure to agencies like these, it becomes complicit in the harm that follows.

Google once claimed it would not build technology that causes “overall harm.” That promise is meaningless if it doesn’t apply when immigrants are the ones being harmed.

Across the tech industry, workers are drawing a clear line. Engineers, designers, and researchers are refusing to let their labor be used against vulnerable communities. The message from Google’s own workforce is unmistakable: profiting from contracts with ICE and CBP violates the company’s stated values and undermines trust with users around the world.

Immigrant communities should not pay the price for Google’s growth strategy. Families should not be surveilled, detained, or deported with the help of tools built by a company that claims to stand for human rights.

Tell Google CEO Sundar Pichai: stop enabling ICE. Cut the contracts. Honor your own values. Add your name now and demand that Google end its complicity in cruelty and choose accountability over abuse.