Sign the petition: Governor Northam, demand Amazon end its relationship with ICE
Governor Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax, and Attorney General Herring
In the middle of a firestorm from revelations about Virginia's top three executives’ past racist and alleged sexually violent behavior, Governor Northam signed a bill that gives Amazon $750 million in taxpayer dollars to establish its second headquarters in Arlington.
Lawmakers rushed the bill through the state legislature without meaningful public discussion of Amazon providing technology to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down and deport immigrants.
In this moment of crisis in leadership, we need to demand Virginia’s leaders listen to and protect vulnerable communities.
Sign the petition: Governor Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax, and AG Herring: Demand Amazon end its relationship with ICE.
Amazon’s relationship with ICE exacerbates racial profiling and puts our communities in danger. Amazon provides cloud computing services that help ICE track and stockpile all sorts of information about immigrants, their families, and their friends, and has recently pitched ICE its facial recognition software called Rekognition. Amazon reportedly brings in $600,000 per month on just one aspect of its multi-pronged support for ICE. ICE cannot wage its war against immigrants without the critical infrastructure support provided by tech corporations like Amazon.
Welcoming Amazon into Northern Virginia without scrutiny to Amazon’s partnership with ICE is another slap in the face to the communities that have been disrespected by Northam, Fairfax, and Herring’s scandals.
Add your name: Demand Amazon sever its relationship with ICE immediately.
Instead of further embarrassing Virginia with meaningless investigations or apologies after all of the atrocities they have perpetrated, Gov. Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax and AG Herring should act in solidarity with Black and brown communities and demand an end to the disturbing ties between Amazon and ICE.
Sign the petition: Demand Amazon sever its relationship with ICE once and for all.
Participating Partner Organizations:
Color of Change
Free Press
Daily Kos
Jobs with Justice
Justice for Muslims Collective
La ColectiVA
MPower Change
Mijente
Our Revolution Arlington
Partnership for Working Families
Showing Up for Racial Justice - NoVA
Southern Poverty Law Center
Lawmakers rushed the bill through the state legislature without meaningful public discussion of Amazon providing technology to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hunt down and deport immigrants.
In this moment of crisis in leadership, we need to demand Virginia’s leaders listen to and protect vulnerable communities.
Sign the petition: Governor Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax, and AG Herring: Demand Amazon end its relationship with ICE.
Amazon’s relationship with ICE exacerbates racial profiling and puts our communities in danger. Amazon provides cloud computing services that help ICE track and stockpile all sorts of information about immigrants, their families, and their friends, and has recently pitched ICE its facial recognition software called Rekognition. Amazon reportedly brings in $600,000 per month on just one aspect of its multi-pronged support for ICE. ICE cannot wage its war against immigrants without the critical infrastructure support provided by tech corporations like Amazon.
Welcoming Amazon into Northern Virginia without scrutiny to Amazon’s partnership with ICE is another slap in the face to the communities that have been disrespected by Northam, Fairfax, and Herring’s scandals.
Add your name: Demand Amazon sever its relationship with ICE immediately.
Instead of further embarrassing Virginia with meaningless investigations or apologies after all of the atrocities they have perpetrated, Gov. Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax and AG Herring should act in solidarity with Black and brown communities and demand an end to the disturbing ties between Amazon and ICE.
Sign the petition: Demand Amazon sever its relationship with ICE once and for all.
Participating Partner Organizations:
Color of Change
Free Press
Daily Kos
Jobs with Justice
Justice for Muslims Collective
La ColectiVA
MPower Change
Mijente
Our Revolution Arlington
Partnership for Working Families
Showing Up for Racial Justice - NoVA
Southern Poverty Law Center
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To:
Governor Northam, Lt. Governor Fairfax, and Attorney General Herring
From:
[Your Name]
ICE cannot wage its war against immigrants without the critical infrastructure support provided by tech corporations like Amazon. As Virginia's top officials, you are either with Amazon, ICE, and their human rights abuses, or the immigrant-rich communities of Virginia. We implore you to demand Amazon sever its relationship with ICE immediately.