European Tech Giant Cuts US Subsidiary After Multimillion-Dollar ICE Contract
French technology giant Capgemini announced on Sunday that it will immediately part ways with its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, following growing scrutiny over the company’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Capgemini was named the lead contractor for ICE’s new “tracking” immigration surveillance program. Skipping the trail is a method often used by debt collectors to locate hard-to-find individuals, and it has not been used by ICE before.
As part of the new program, ICE has enlisted a number of non-governmental organizations to track 50,000 immigrants a month, first by identifying where they live and work with “all available technical systems,” and then ensuring “physical, personal surveillance,” including photography, according to the Washington Post. The agency awarded contracts to ten companies in December. As part of the contract, the companies could earn more than $1 billion by the end of next year, according to the Intercept.
The highest potential profit of $365 million over two years will go to Capgemini Government Solutions, Capgemini’s US-owned European technology company. Capgemini Government Solutions has worked with the Department of Homeland Security for more than 15 years, according to Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat.
As ICE escalates violent immigration crackdowns, protesters have begun targeting companies that help fund those efforts. Anti-ICE protesters are planning nationwide general strikes and boycotts, and hundreds of tech workers have signed a letter asking their companies to cancel all contracts with ICE. Even Italians organized protests as ICE agents descended on Milan for the Winter Olympics. The French are no strangers to anti-ICE sentiments, either.
Following the fatal shooting of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month, the investigation of Capgemini’s work with DHS has been placed in France. Union workers and government officials, including French economy minister Roland Lescure, are demanding that the company review its contracts with the US government.
An independent board of directors began reviewing the contract last week, Ezzat said.
“We were recently informed, through public sources, of the nature of the contract awarded to CGS by DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December 2025. The nature and scope of this work raised questions in comparison to what we typically do as a business and technology company,” said a senior official in a LinkedIn post last Sunday.
A week later, the review concluded that “the traditional legal restrictions imposed on entering into contracts with federal government agencies performing classified activities in the United States did not allow the Group to properly manage certain aspects of the company’s operations to ensure compliance with the Group’s objectives,” Capgemini said in a press release.
The decision to split comes amid a tense political situation between France and the United States. There has been deep resentment among Europeans over the actions of the Trump administration since he took office last year. At the beginning of last year, French citizens planned to boycott Tesla because of the close relationship of CEO Elon Musk with management, including some brands closely associated with American ownership, such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.
As Trump escalates his tariff threats to the bloc, French officials intend to limit the use of certain American technologies in government areas to ease the country’s dependence on the US.
