{"id":18563,"date":"2026-02-02T22:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/french-company-capgemini-to-sell-subsidiary-working-with-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T22:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T22:22:31","slug":"french-company-capgemini-to-sell-subsidiary-working-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/french-company-capgemini-to-sell-subsidiary-working-with-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"French company Capgemini to sell subsidiary working with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<div>\n<p>                                <bsp-timestamp data-timestamp=\"1769967924000\" data-recent-thresholdinhours=\"1\">                    <template data-date-tpl>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]<\/template>                    <span data-date><\/span>                <\/bsp-timestamp>            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                    <bsp-page-actions>                            <\/bsp-page-actions>                                                            <\/div>\n<div>\n<p>PARIS (AP) &mdash; French company Capgemini announced Sunday it is selling off its subsidiary that provides technology services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during global scrutiny of ICE agents&rsquo; tactics in the Trump administration&rsquo;s <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-judge-48052b87af15d2884c47ce00aff8c4a3\">immigration crackdown.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>France&rsquo;s government had <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-us-ice-capgemini-contract-a511f6ea0f3c8093d8e8a30d0943ed1f\">pressured the company<\/a><\/span>  to be more transparent about its dealings with ICE, whose actions in Minneapolis in recent weeks have raised concern in France and other countries. The government&rsquo;s campaign against immigrants in Minnesota&rsquo;s capital has led to the fatal shootings <span><a data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/shooting-minneapolis-protests-ice-immigration-41437baa4b349279cf8abfaf1076162c\">of two U.S. citizens<\/a><\/span>  at the hands of federal immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini said in a statement Sunday that it will immediately start the process of selling off its subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions. It said the rules for working with U.S. federal government agencies &Prime;did now allow the group to exercise appropriate control over certain aspects of the operations of this subsidiary to ensure alignment with the group&rsquo;s objectives.&Prime;<\/p>\n<p>It didn&rsquo;t give further explanation for the decision, but noted that the subsidiary represents only 0.4% of the company&rsquo;s estimated 2025 revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat said he was only recently made aware of the subsidiary&rsquo;s contract with ICE. In a LinkedIn post, he said, &ldquo;The nature and scope of this work has raised questions compared to what we typically do as a business and technology firm.&rsquo;&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The company selloff announcement came after French Finance Minister Roland Lescure, speaking to parliament last week, urged Capgemini &Prime;to shed light, in an extremely transparent manner, on its activities &#8230; and to question the nature of these activities.&Prime; Lescure&rsquo;s office did not comment on the company&rsquo;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Non-governmental organization Multinationals Observatory reported that Capgemini Government Solutions provided ICE technical tools to locate targets for the immigration crackdown. CapgemiSni did not immediately respond to a query about the tools.<\/p>\n<p>Capgemini is a consulting and technology company that employs more than 340,000 people in more than 50 countries.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-ice-contract-capgemini-cd7e4c2625fd8e1ca2fa54b67c5c43e4\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] PARIS (AP) &mdash; French company Capgemini announced Sunday it is selling off its subsidiary that provides technology services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during global scrutiny of ICE agents&rsquo; tactics in the Trump administration&rsquo;s immigration crackdown. France&rsquo;s government had pressured the company to be more transparent about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}