To our leadership:

We ask that Accenture and Accenture Federal Services cancel all contracts with Customs and
Border Protection (CBP). Specifically, we ask you to cancel the $297m contract our company
has with CBP to hire more CBP officers. Trump’s executive order on Border Security and
Immigration Enforcement Improvements called for hiring 7,500 new Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) agents. Accenture is currently providing CPB with the recruiting and
processing capabilities necessary to fulfill this aggressive hiring agenda, which in turn gives
CBP and ICE capacity to expand their inhumane policies. These include the internment of
thousands of immigrant children, and the grave mistreatment of immigrant families. As we write,
13,000 children are currently detained and separated from their families. A pregnant woman
was shackled, resulting in a miscarriage. Parents have been deported without their children, and
adoption proceedings which will result in detained children being permanently separated from
their families are being proposed, and long term mental trauma for the thousands of people
directly impacted by CBP officers.

In September a CBP officer admitted killing 4 women in Laredo, Texas. These atrocious
murders are not isolated incidents. According to the Southern Border Communities Coalition,
border agents have killed 81 people since 2010. Border patrol and ICE agents have terrorized
immigrant communities for decades.

Amnesty International has condemned CBP’s actions as “nothing short of torture” and in
“flagrant violation of human rights” and “US obligations under refugee law.” Helping increase
CPB’s ability to carry out torture and human rights abuse is unethical and immoral. It is also in
clear violation of Accenture's code of ethics, which commit “to build a more equal and inclusive
society” and to improve “millions of lives around the world, now and for the future.” The
technology we provide is sold in the name of efficiency, but all we see is technology
supercharging inhumane and cruel policies.

Others have recognized the urgency of this situation, and taken action. In July, McKinsey cut
ties with ICE, refusing to support CBP’s inhumane policies.

We cannot support CBP while it is engaged in these immoral and illegal activities. Our work
directly strengthens CBP’s capacity to execute these policies. We ask that Accenture follow
McKinsey’s lead, that it realize that any business with CBP at this time amounts to complicity.
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.

The moment to vocally reject these illegal and immoral actions is now. This begins with
cancelling our contract with CBP and affirming our place on the right side of history.

Sign your name to the petition here.