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John,
For nearly a year, we have watched the Trump administration pressure federal agencies, local police, and America’s largest technology companies to help carry out the most aggressive immigration crackdown in modern history.
This week, that escalation turned deadly.
In Minneapolis, an American citizen was shot and killed by an ICE agent just for being in the way.
Her name was Renee Nicole Good. She was a 37 year old wife and mother of three gunned down by ICE in broad daylight, on a street full of bystanders and protesters.
Less than 48 hours after Renee’s murder, federal agents in Portland shot into another vehicle and wounded two more people during a so-called “targeted stop.”
Local officials have already said they cannot trust the federal government’s account of what happened.
This is the deadly context in which Big Tech’s decisions matter.
And that is why last month Arsenal PAC launched a joint action with partners across the country to confront corporate cooperation with an enforcement apparatus that is killing and injuring Americans in the street.
We are calling on Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to end their contracts with ICE and CBP, restore protections for community reporting tools, and publicly commit to defending the right to document law enforcement activity.
We are asking you to send a letter to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai today.
We drafted it for you. You can personalize it or send it as written. Either way, they will hear from you.
If Apple and Google do not end their collaboration with ICE and CBP, they are willfully colluding with murderers and agents of state terror.
When they remove tools that allow communities to document federal violence, they help create the conditions where that violence escalates unchecked.
Renee Nicole Good is dead.
Two more people are hospitalized in Portland.
Dozens have died in ICE custody this year, hundreds of thousands terrorized and families torn apart.
These are the tragic real world consequences of suppressing transparency and shielding power from scrutiny.
Apple and Google can still choose a different path.
They can sever ties with ICE and CBP.
They can defend the right to document law enforcement activity.
They can stop enabling an enforcement system that is spiraling toward more bloodshed.
If they continue to look away, they own their share of the death and destruction that ICE, CBP, and DHS unleash next.
Send your letter now and make clear that Big Tech has a responsibility here and history will remember the choices they make.
We have the watch,
Samantha Boucher
Founder, Arsenal PAC
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