After federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Google employees lit up the company’s internal message boards with calls for the company to respond.
On Friday, more than 800 employees called on management in a petition to be transparent about how Google’s technology supports federal immigration agencies and urged the company to stop doing business with those organizations. The petition said they were “appalled by the violence” and “paramilitary-style raids” by immigration agents, which they accused Google of aiding.
They also asked the company to take safety measures to protect employees after a reported attempt by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to enter the company’s campus in Cambridge, Mass.
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While signed by a small fraction of the company’s roughly 190,000 workers, the new petition echoes turmoil at Google in 2018, after workers walked out over the company’s handling of sexual harassment and then protested its involvement in a Pentagon program that used artificial intelligence to improve drone strikes.
In the years since, Google’s management limited employees’ access to internal documents, scaled back all-hands meetings and cracked down on dissent. It fired 28 workers two years ago for protesting its cloud computing contract with the Israeli government.
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