French firm Capgemini to divest subsidiary providing tech services to ICE amid escalating global backlash against Trump’s immigration crackdown
The French firm announced on Sunday that it is divesting its subsidiary which supplies technology services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This decision comes amid international examination of ICE agents’ methods under the Trump administration.
France’s government had called for greater transparency regarding its engagements with ICE, whose recent operations in Minneapolis have caused alarm in France and elsewhere. The federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota’s capital has resulted in fatal shootings by federal immigration officers.
In a statement issued Sunday, Capgemini said it would immediately begin the process of selling its subsidiary, Capgemini Government Solutions. The company stated that the regulations for collaborating with U.S. federal government agencies “did not allow the group to exercise appropriate control over certain aspects of the operations of this subsidiary to ensure alignment with the group’s objectives.”
No further rationale for the move was provided, though the company indicated the subsidiary accounts for a mere 0.4% of its projected 2025 revenue.
Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat stated he had only recently become aware of the subsidiary’s contract with ICE. In a post, he remarked, “The nature and scope of this work has raised questions compared to what we typically do as a business and technology firm.”
The announcement of the sale followed a statement last week by French Finance Minister Roland Lescure, who, while addressing parliament, urged Capgemini “to shed light, in an extremely transparent manner, on its activities … and to question the nature of these activities.” Lescure’s office offered no response to the company’s decision.
According to a report from the non-governmental organization Multinationals Observatory, Capgemini Government Solutions supplied ICE with technical tools to identify targets for the immigration crackdown. Capgemini did not provide an immediate response to an inquiry about these tools.
Capgemini is a consulting and technology firm with a workforce of more than 340,000 people across over 50 countries.