Activist Groups: AT&T Should Cut Ties With ICE
The People’s Lobby and People’s Action are circulating a virtual petition calling on AT&T to end its contract with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. With $30.7 billion in revenue in Q3, AT&T doesn’t need the contracts, the groups said. The petition had logged more than 1,300 online signatures as of Thursday afternoon, with a goal of 1,600.
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AT&T “is choosing to both collect money from customers who are in the crosshairs, and line its pockets with public dollars to help ICE agents -- who are masked, unidentifiable, and operating without warrants -- as they terrorize members of the public in communities like Chicago,” the groups said in an email. AT&T didn’t comment.