"Mission critical"

Hi there,

Microsoft has a $19.4-million contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — providing the technology that's enabled ICE to trap millions of immigrants in a web of family separation, indefinite detention and worse.

More than 250,000 people have signed petitions calling on Microsoft to cancel its contract with ICE and on July 26 we're delivering these signatures to the company’s offices across the country. Will you join us at a #NoTechForICE protest near you?

Microsoft provides dangerous software that helps ICE violate human rights faster and more “efficiently.” Microsoft has described this technology as “mission critical” to ICE operations.1

The product is called Azure, and it’s enabled ICE to carry out its policies harming thousands of families at the border. A horrific new report indicates that detention guards have engaged in all kinds of racist, sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic and transphobic abuses.2

Hundreds of Microsoft employees — and tens of thousands of people across the country — have spoken out. But Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, is still stubbornly saying he won’t drop the company’s contract with ICE. That’s why we need you to show up in person and call on the company to cancel its contract.

With increased public pressure we can persuade Microsoft to do the right thing. Other major companies, like global consulting firm McKinsey & Co., have already dropped contracts with ICE.3 And this Thursday we’ll ramp up the heat on Microsoft to follow their lead.

Tell Microsoft to stop helping the Trump administration violate basic human rights: Find a protest near you.

Together we can hold companies accountable and end their support for the Trump administration’s heinous human-rights abuses.

Thanks for all that you do—

Lucia, Collette, Candace and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team
freepress.net

P.S. Join a protest near you: Urge Microsoft to drop its contract with ICE.

1. “Microsoft Backtracks on 'Proud Support' for ICE as Blog Post Goes Viral,” NBC News, June 18, 2018: https://act.freepress.net/go/24378?t=9&akid=9842%2E10296224%2EqRHVnS

2. “Here Is Just Some of the Hateful Abuse Immigrants Face in Detention Centers,” The Nation, June 27, 2018: https://act.freepress.net/go/24129?t=8&akid=9767%2ENone%2Ey06DeT&t=11&akid=9842%2E10296224%2EqRHVnS

3. “McKinsey & Co. Will No Longer Work With ICE,” Quartz, July 10, 2018: https://act.freepress.net/go/24379?t=13&akid=9842%2E10296224%2EqRHVnS

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