A group of Google employees are demanding an end to any ICE or border control contracts.
More than 800 Googlers signed a petition for the company to disclose how the Department of Homeland Security uses its products and services, and that it protect its vulnerable workers.
The group is urging transparency and protection from the tech giant in light of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“We are Google workers appalled by the violence inflicted by United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP),” the petition said.
“We are vehemently opposed to Google’s partnerships with DHS, CBP, and ICE,” the group of Google employees added. “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.”
It made four demands of Google executives: acknowledge the danger that US-based workers face daily in light of the immigration crackdown, host a Q&A session for workers on government and military contracts, protect all Googlers — from cafeteria workers to data center employees —, and disclose ties and set red lines around how DHS agencies use Google products.
A Google spokesperson told Business Insider that DHS uses basic cloud infrastructure services that are available to any customer.
The petition was organized by No Tech for Apartheid, an advocacy group led by Google and Amazon workers.
An organizer for the petition told Business Insider that the petition has received more than 800 signatures in under 48 hours. They said that all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.
The 800 Googlers who signed the petition make up a small fraction of the company’s total workforce. At of the end of 2025, Alphabet had a total of 190,820 employees, per an SEC filing.
No Tech for Apartheid previously staged an in-office protest related to the company’s $1.2 billion joint contract with Amazon that provides services within Israel’s government.
Alphabet fired more than two dozen employees for the protest, saying at the time that “physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a clear violation of our policies.”
The petition comes after activists, celebrities, and businesses led a nationwide strike against ICE on January 31, protesting the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis in January.
Others have called for a boycott of Big Tech specifically, to get the notice of executives close to President Donald Trump.
It’s not just Google workers who are speaking up about ICE. A separate petition titled “Tech demands ICE out of our cities,” urged tech CEOs to press the White House to abolish ICE and to end corporate contracts with the agency.
The petition was signed by more than 250 workers, including workers from Amazon, Spotify, Oracle, Apple, and PayPal.
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