Microsoft must end their $19.4 million dollar technology contract with ICE.
Detaining and separating families at the border isn’t just horrific – for some tech companies, it’s profitable.
Microsoft is one of those companies. They sell Azure, a cloud computing service that does everything from file storage to facial recognition, to ICE and make millions – $19.4 million to be exact – off of ICE’s deportation machine.
Tell Microsoft to divest from ICE immediately and to quit profiting off of deportation-industrial complex.
When the news hit that families were being separated at the border, and children were being held alone in cages at secret ICE facilities, Microsoft was quick to walk back their role in equipping ICE with technology. But make no mistake, they touted that their Azure service was “mission critical” to ICE’s operations.1
Now Microsoft wants to distance themselves from ICE’s cruel detention policies, but that’s hard to do when they’re making millions off of Trump's inhumane immigration crisis.
If Microsoft is truly morally outraged2 by ICE’s actions, they’ll walk the walk and cancel their contract with the agency and stop profiting on deportations. Tell Microsoft to divest from ICE immediately.
Thanks for taking action, Reuben and the team at Watchdog.net
Sources: 1. Wired, “Microsoft's Ethical Reckoning Is Here,” June 18, 2018. 2. Vanity Fair, “Like “IBM’s Work During The Holocaust”: Inside Microsoft, Growing Outrage Over A Contract With ICE,” June 19, 2018.
