John,

As Donald Trump and his allies push to widen ICE surveillance, increase raids, and normalize mass detention, it is clear that ICE relies on corporate infrastructure, including data systems and cloud services built by some of the most powerful companies in the world.

Apple and Google sit at the center of ICE infrastructure. And when confronted with overwhelming evidence of abuse, family separation, and civil rights violations, both companies chose to keep their contracts with ICE, continuing to supply the technology and systems that allow the agency to operate at scale.

These contracts help ICE collect information, coordinate operations, and carry out enforcement that has torn families apart and traumatized children. Apple and Google cannot claim neutrality while their technology helps power an agency with a long record of terrorizing communities.

This moment demands accountability and we have seen that grassroots pressure on corporations works. Corporations like Apple and Google are deeply sensitive to reputational risk, investor scrutiny, and organized campaigns that expose the gap between their public values and their private actions.

Apple and Google carefully market themselves as champions of privacy, human rights, and social responsibility. Those claims collapse when their technology is used to expand an enforcement system that inflicts real harm on real people.

Ending these contracts would not undo the damage already done. But it would draw a clear line. It would say that profiting from mass detention and family separation is unacceptable, and that corporate power comes with responsibility, not immunity.

Tell the CEOs of Apple and Google to immediately end their contracts with ICE and stop allowing their technology to be used to fuel detention, deportation, and family separation.

What makes this even more disturbing is how much these corporations and their executives have personally gained under Trump. From 2018 through 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai received an estimated $1.25 billion in compensation. Apple CEO Tim Cook took home roughly $1.5 billion.

Both benefited directly from Trump’s 2017 tax law, which delivered tens of millions of dollars in personal tax cuts to each of them while slashing their companies’ effective tax rates by billions every year. At the same time, Apple and Google spent hundreds of billions on stock buybacks to enrich shareholders instead of taking responsibility for the harm their contracts enable.

Families facing detention and deportation did not get tax breaks or stock buybacks. They got fear, separation, and loss. And now, as Trump pushes to escalate ICE’s reach even further, continued silence from Big Tech is not accidental. It is a choice.

Apple and Google spend tens of millions lobbying lawmakers and shaping public policy behind closed doors. They are not passive actors. They are central players with the power to change course if they are forced to answer to the public.

Help keep the pressure on Apple and Google to cut ties with ICE and stop enabling this abuse.

Together, we can force powerful corporations to stop enabling ICE’s campaign of terror and start answering to the public.