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FOXNEWS Special Report With Bret Baier November 15, 2019 23:18:15
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how about business news. amazon crying foul after losing out on a $10 billion pentagon contract. the tech giants accusing the trump administration of unmistakable bias. tracy carrasco is here to explain. reporter: amazon is protesting the pentagon s decision to award that $10 billion contract to microsoft. this was a cloud computing contract and microsoft or amazon was competing against microsoft and oracle and amazon is expressing concern that politics got in the way of welfare contracting process. amazon was thought to be the front runner of this contract. they have the experience ahead of the other companies here but many know that donald trump has been critical of amazon and the founder of the company, jeff
that my colleague sarah fisher and kourtnei brown have reported. it s across the country. there s a cloud computing contract for i believe i.c.e. and the petition calls for google not to provide engineering resources for i.c.e. or the refugee resettlement office. so this is something that we re seeing across multiple sectors and it s a trend that seems to be intensifying the longer we get into the trump administration. yeah. interesting thing is this. we know that this president loves corporations, loves companies. he s always touting his economic record so could this kind of pressure from some of these really big companies, big brands recognized around the u.s. put pressure on trump to back away from some of his policies? well, i wouldn t rule it out. i m not confident in this case because it is really one of his central i mean, the border and immigration enforcement is
jonathan swan. jonathan, good morning. you have some new reporting about employees at several major companies pushing back against work from agencies that enforce trump administration immigration policies. let s dig in to this a little bit. which companies are we talking about? this is a really important trend. captured by my colleague sarah fisher and kourtnei brown. you have google employees who have signed a petition saying they don t want the company to do any work, whether it be infrastructure, engineering, any kind of technical assistance to the trump administration that would help their immigration enforcement. that s important because there s a cloud computing contract up at the moment for one of those agencies. you have got other companies like whole foods which is calling on the parent company amazon to cut ties with palantir which provides the computer software. and you have several big banks
multimillion dollar cloud computing contract with the customs importer protection agency. the 769 who signed this petition which they also posted on medium claimed building new cloud infrastructure for cbp would make google complicit in the agency s human rights abuses at the southern border. they are caging and harming asylum-seekers, separating children from parents, illegally obtaining refugees and u.s. citizens, and perpetrating a system that has led to the death of at least seven children in detention camps. employees are demanding google executives promise not to provide cbp or ice with any tech services until they stop operating border detention centers which some employees have taken to calling concentration camps. cbp leadership says these google employees have got the wrong bad guy. these are your neighbors, your family members, and the folks who have sworn an oath to put the well-being of all
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