20,000 signatures reached
To: AT&T CEO John Stankey and Board Members
Tell AT&T: Do not extend your contract with ICE!
AT&T is one of the top corporations profiting from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s cruel and inhumane deportation agenda. For decades AT&T has contracted with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and it has expanded its scope under the Trump administration.
Right now, a $90.8 million contract is set to expire in September—but could be extended through 2032 for an additional $74.4 million dollars. AT&T has more than 100 million customers in the U.S. They answer to us—the people. It's time to cut its ties to ICE!
Why is this important?
AT&T is a major company, bringing in $120 billion in revenue every year. It doesn’t need DHS’s contracts in order to remain profitable. But it’s choosing to maintain its ties with DHS despite widespread documentation of ICE’s abuse and civil rights violations.
The reality is that ICE can’t execute its massive, ramped up deportation campaign on its own. It relies on technology companies for its intrusive surveillance and data and IT infrastructure. And it relies on AT&T for its high-speed network and special “first responders” priority access to voice and data.
ICE also uses AT&T for its “Data Analytics Service”—allowing ICE to tap into AT&T’s raw data and analysis of that data. Which means ICE can use that data to add to its massive database tracking Americans, a violation of our privacy and security.
ICE and CPB’s inflated budget has enabled them to sow chaos and violence across the country, and they are just getting started. And while we fight to push Congress and the administration to rein in this rogue agency, we need to also send a clear message to corporations enabling ICE’s brutality that they will be held to account, as well.
>>Add your name to the petition to send a clear message to AT&T that the public is watching and expects them to cut ties with ICE come September.<<