More than 1,000 Google employees implore leaders to stop working with U.S. border and immigration agencies.
by the agency. The U.S. government states that it is readying a new, long-term cloud contract for a strategy called Cloud Smart, which aims to modernize its legacy systems starting in 2020.The petition argues that the agencies are responsible for mistreating asylum seekers, separating children from parents and illegally detaining refugees.
It also points to 2017 when Google co-founder and Alphabet president Sergey Brin"In working with CBP, ICE, or ORR , Google would be trading its integrity for a bit of profit, and joining a shameful lineage," the petition says. "In January of 2017, thousands of Googlers, including our executives, joined together to protest the Trump administration's Muslim Ban. This was the right thing to do and we are proud to work at a place that reflects these values.
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