Abolish ICE will protest Accenture, a consulting and professional services firm, in Chicago on Tuesday for allegedly recruiting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.
Demonstrators from Chicago All Out Against ICE plan to hold signs and use noisemakers to disrupt Accenture workers, according to the Facebook event. The event page acknowledged the Chicago office was not responsible for the $297,000,000 contract with CBP, but threatened that “the entire company is culpable.”
“Accenture is profiting nearly $3 million taxpayer dollars to help facilitate surveillance, deportation, detainment, kidnapping, and rape of not only immigrants but all people of color at or near the US-Mexico border because of Trump’s call to increase ICE and CBP capacity (and thus increase the dangers to immigrant communities),” the description for the event charged, though no evidence was cited.
“Past events separating families at the border are heartbreaking. Accenture has not been involved in separating families, and we are not engaged in developing border policies,” an Accenture spokesman said in a statement to The Daily Caller New Foundation.
The protest is part of ongoing efforts to target corporations that work with immigration and border patrol officers. (RELATED: Protesters Target Amazon For Selling Tech To ICE)
Accenture is a consulting and professional services firm that helped CBP streamline their services so officers could “focus more on the inspection and less on administrative functions,” CBP’s director of travel and tourism initiatives Suzanne Shepherd said, according to the Accenture website.
CBP and Accenture worked together to establish services like kiosks, automated paper forms and “point-of-contact services managers at ports of entry for international travelers,” according to the website.
Correction: This article originally reported that Accenture was accused of funding CBP. It has been updated to reflect that Accenture is accused simply of profiting on a border security deal.
All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org.