French tech giant Capgemini announced on Sunday that it will immediately exit its American subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, following the development of an investigation into the company’s relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Capgemini is designated as the lead contractor of a new ICE surveillance program for “skip-tracing” immigrants. Skip-tracing is a method often used by debt collectors to locate hard-to-find people, and ICE has never used it before.

As part of the new program, ICE has enlisted several non-governmental entities to track 50,000 immigrants a month, first by identifying where they live and work through “all available technological systems,” and then confirming through “physical, in-person surveillance,” including photography, according to Washington Post. The agency awarded contracts to ten companies in December. As part of the contract, the companies can get more than $1 billion by the end of next year, according to The Intercept.

The highest potential bounty of $365 million over two years will go to Capgemini Government Solutions, European tech giant Capgemini’s US subsidiary. Capgemini Government Solutions has been working with the Department of Homeland Security for more than 15 years, according to Capgemini CEO Aiman ​​​​Ezzat.

As ICE ramps up its violent immigration crackdown, protesters have begun targeting companies that help turbocharge those efforts. Protesters organized against ICE general strike across the country and boycottswhile hundreds of tech workers signed a letter asking their companies to cancel all contracts with ICE. Although Italian organized protests as ICE agents descended on Milan for the Winter Olympics. The French are no strangers to anti-ICE sentiment, either.

Following the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minneapolis last month, EXAMINING of Capgemini’s work with DHS mounted in France. Union workers and government officials, including French economy minister Roland Lescure, are demanding that the company review its contracts with the American government.

An independent board of directors began reviewing the contract last week, Ezzat said.

“We recently learned, through public sources, of the nature of a contract awarded to CGS by DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December 2025. The nature and scope of this work raises questions compared to what we typically do as a business and technology company,” said the chief executive of a LinkedIn post last Sunday.

A week ago, the review concluded that “the usual legal restrictions imposed for contracting with federal government entities that carry out classified activities in the United States do not allow the Group to exercise appropriate control over certain aspects of the operations of this subsidiary to ensure the alignment of the Group’s objectives,” said Capgemini in a press release.

The divestment decision comes amid a tense geopolitical situation between France and the United States. There is deep anger among Europeans at the actions of the Trump administration since taking office last year. Early last year, French citizens organized boycotts of Tesla due to CEO Elon Musk’s close relationship with the administration, including some brands associated with an American identity, such as Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.

As Trump escalated his tariff threats to the bloc, French officials took aim stays the use of some American technology in government spaces to ease the country’s dependence on the US They also reiterated and openly asked the European Union to take a stronger stance against Trump’s tariff threats, including the release of “trade” in the Union. bazooka” which may allow restrictions on digital service companies such as Meta and Google.