Google staff warns against working with US border agencies

The letter was written following CBP plans to find a company that can honour its massive cloud computing needs

A letter signed by almost 400 people urges Google not to be involved in 'human rights abuses'.

 

More than 350 Google employees have written an open letter to the company, demanding Google does not work with the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) because of its treatment of migrants at the country's southern border.

The letter, written by 365 Google employees and 35 supporters on Wednesday, also demands the company not work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), accusing all three agencies of human rights abuses.

"We demand that Google publicly commit not to support CBP, ICE, or ORR with any infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly, until they stop engaging in human rights abuses," the letter reads.

"[They] are caging and harming asylum seekers, separating children from parents, illegally detaining refugees and US citizens, and perpetrating a system of abuse and malign neglect that has led to the deaths of at least 7 children in detention camps," the letter, which lists all the employees who signed it, continues.

"These abuses are illegal under international human rights law, and immoral by any standard."