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Google is facing another internal crisis as employees demand answers from executives on how the company works with US immigration services. Workers have pressed management on whether the company will offer cloud services to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), concerned that their labor could be used to power Trump administration policies. But according to documents obtained by The Verge, similar deals are already in place that shows how lucrative and lasting those agreements can be. In 2017, a third-party software provider reached a nearly $750,000 deal to provide a Google cloud service to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The contract was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the activist group Mijente, which has pushed back on tech companies working with US immigration agencies. The document does not directly mention Google, but the contract provides a two-year license for Apigee Edge Private Cloud, part of a Google service for managing APIs. The contract was signed in September 2017, suggesting the service is still in use. While USCIS is seen as the bureaucratic counterpart to agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and CBP, responsible for managing asylum claims and related duties, the agency isn’t without controversy. Earlier this month, after the announcement of a Trump administration policy that would make it more difficult for poorer immigrants to become American citizens, acting director Ken Cuccinelli suggested changing the sonnet etched on the Statue of Liberty to “give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.” Wanna know more, please visit OUR FORUM.