Accenture Workers Petition to End $297 Million Border Patrol Contract
- Workers denounced five-year commitment to help hire new agents
- Latest in wave of collective action on hot-button issues
Members of the U.S. Border Patrol keep watch in El Paso, Texas.
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Accenture employees are circulating a petition urging the company to cancel its contract to help the Trump administration recruit border patrol agents, the latest in a wave of recent technology-fueled protests by white-collar workers challenging potential collaboration with law enforcement.
“The technology we provide is sold in the name of efficiency, but all we see is technology supercharging inhumane and cruel policies,” the petition states. “We joined Accenture because we want to work for a company that does good in the world, a company that helps vulnerable immigrants, not facilitates putting them into cages.”