French IT providers supplier Capgemini SE plans to promote a US-based unit that’s dealing with scrutiny over its contracts with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement .
The corporate stated it might provoke the sale strategy of the subsidiary, Capgemini Authorities Options, instantly, in line with an announcement launched on Sunday.
“Authorized restrictions imposed for contracting with federal authorities entities finishing up categorised actions in the US didn’t enable the Group to train acceptable management over sure elements of the operations of this subsidiary to make sure alignment with the Group’s goals,” Capgemini stated within the assertion.
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure final week requested Capgemini to make clear its hyperlinks to ICE, an arm of the Division of Homeland Safety, after the corporate instructed him its subsidiary had separate governance and that Capgemini wasn’t conscious of the contracts it signed.
Companies have come underneath fireplace over their ties to ICE, which is main the Trump administration’s mass deportation initiative. The backlash over the company’s techniques has solely grown within the wake of the second killing of a US citizen throughout an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis final month.
French media outlet Observatoire des multinationales reported final month that Capgemini has had contracts with ICE since a minimum of 2007. It reported that Capgemini Authorities Options had obtained a brand new contract in December associated to finding people in a course of often called “skip-tracing.”
In a publish on Linkedin final week, Cap Gemini CEO Aiman Ezzat stated that the corporate had been “made conscious, via public sources, of the character of a contract awarded to CGS by DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement in December 2025. The character and scope of this work has raised questions in comparison with what we usually do as a enterprise and know-how agency.”
In Sunday’s assertion, the corporate stated Capgemini Authorities Options represents 0.4% of the group’s world 2025 estimated income and fewer than 2% of its US income.
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