French company Capgemini to sell subsidiary working with ICE

PARIS (AP) — French company Capgemini announced Sunday it’s selling off its subsidiary that presents technology services and products to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, all over global scrutiny of ICE agents’ ways within the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

France’s government had pressured the corporate to be more clear about its dealings with ICE, whose actions in Minneapolis in most modern weeks hold raised difficulty in France and other countries. The federal government’s campaign against immigrants in Minnesota’s capital has ended in the lethal shootings of two U.S. residents by the hands of federal immigration officers.

Capgemini stated in an announcement Sunday that this can staunch now birth the project of advertising and marketing and marketing off its subsidiary Capgemini Authorities Choices. It stated the foundations for working with U.S. federal government companies ″did now enable the community to bid relevant regulate over dash facets of the operations of this subsidiary to be dash alignment with the community’s targets.″

It didn’t give extra clarification for the resolution, but illustrious that the subsidiary represents supreme 0.4% of the corporate’s estimated 2025 income.

Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat stated he became supreme as of late made responsive to the subsidiary’s contract with ICE. In a LinkedIn post, he stated, “The persona and scope of this work has raised questions when put next to what we in overall attain as a commercial and technology firm.’’

The company selloff announcement got right here after French Finance Minister Roland Lescure, chatting with parliament last week, told Capgemini ″to shed light, in a in particular clear manner, on its activities … and to quiz the nature of these activities.″ Lescure’s set aside of job did now not touch upon the corporate’s resolution.

Non-governmental group Multinationals Observatory reported that Capgemini Authorities Choices equipped ICE technical instruments to come all over targets for the immigration crackdown. CapgemiSni did now not staunch now retort to a quiz about the instruments.

Capgemini is a consulting and technology company that employs more than 340,000 individuals in more than 50 countries.