Move On – March 16, 2026

Posted on March 16, 2026

Tell AT&T: Do not extend your contract with ICE!

Dear MoveOn member,

AT&T is one of the top corporations profiting from Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s cruel and inhumane deportation agenda. For decades AT&T has contracted with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and it has expanded its scope under the Trump administration. Right now, a $90.8 million contract is set to expire in September—but could be extended through 2032 for an additional $74.4 million dollars.1

AT&T has more than 100 million customers in the U.S. Our subscriptions keep their business running, and we can demand better. Add your name to the petition to demand that AT&T cut ties with ICE and not extend their contract!

AT&T is a major company, bringing in $120 billion in revenue every year.2 It doesn’t need DHS’s contracts in order to remain profitable. But it’s choosing to maintain its ties with DHS despite widespread documentation of ICE’s abuse and civil rights violations.

We need to make it impossible for corporations like AT&T to operate like it’s business as usual while ICE agents terrorize our communities, murder our neighbors, and violate our rights with impunity. If they won’t cut ties with DHS because it’s the right thing to do, we need to make it financially unviable for them to continue their contract this September. And that means leveraging our consumer power.

We’re ready to turn up the heat over the next six months and make sure AT&T feels the public pressure to cut ties with ICE, but we need your help. Add your name to the petition to send a clear message to AT&T that the public is watching!

Tell AT&T: Do NOT extend your contract with ICE!

Sign the petition

The reality is that ICE can’t execute its massive, ramped up deportation campaign on its own. It relies on technology companies for its intrusive surveillance and data and IT infrastructure. And it relies on AT&T for its high-speed network and special “first responders” priority access to voice and data.3 But it gets worse.

ICE also uses AT&T for its “Data Analytics Service”—allowing ICE to tap into AT&T customer data. ICE can use this data to add to its massive database tracking Americans, a violation of our privacy and security.4

ICE and CBP’s inflated budget has enabled them to sow chaos and violence across the country, and they are just getting started. And while we fight to push Congress and the administration to rein in this rogue agency, we need to also send a clear message to corporations enabling ICE’s brutality that they will be held to account as well.

We don’t have to wait to act. Together we can undermine ICE’s operations right now by pressuring AT&T not to extend its contract with ICE. And we’re prepared to leverage our people power over the next six months to make sure that if AT&T puts ICE and CBP over their customers, they will have to answer to us.

Thanks for all you do.

–Aliya, Erica, Emma, Mia, and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. “Contract Summary,” USAspending.gov, accessed March 16, 2026
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70CTD021FR0000018_7012_GS00Q17NSD3000_4732

2. “Chicagoans Grill AT&T for Facilitating ICE Terror,” The American Prospect, November 17, 2025
https://prospect.org/2025/11/17/chicago-ice-att-protest-department-homeland-security/

3. “U.S. Department of Homeland Security Awards AT&T with 10-Year Contract to Support National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications,” AT&T, September 4, 2024
https://about.att.com/story/2024/department-of-homeland-security.html

4. “Trump’s immigration data dragnet,” Financial Times, December 10, 2025
https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance/

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