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posted by martyb on Tuesday June 19 2018, @06:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the oooh-look-shiny dept.

Several sites are reporting, without reference to IBM's activities 70 years ago, that Microsoft's contact with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is drawing fire online. The Computer Business Review includes a quote from Microsoft now missing from their press release:

"ICE's decision to accelerate IT modernization using Azure Government will help them innovate faster while reducing the burden of legacy IT. The agency is currently implementing transformative technologies for homeland security and public safety, and we're proud to support this work with our mission-critical cloud," he wrote.

KUOW radio writes on their web site that Microsoft is facing outrage their for blog post touting ICE contract:

As outrage grew online, a Microsoft employee quietly removed mention of ICE from the January press release this morning. Social media users noticed that, too. The company has since restored the press release's original language, and called its removal a "mistake."

After a little bit of conference swag gets handed out and a few advertising contracts^W^Wscholarships get handed out, this will all blow over and be forgotten.


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  • (Score: 2) by edinlinux on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:10AM

    by edinlinux (4637) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @07:10AM (#695492)

    I am the OP, sure I will answer..

    If they went through the process, then yes..fine. however, in that case, it is unlikely all 25 million would have gotten in.

    Why, because US immigration policy favors people from many countries (not just from Mexico). It also favors people with educations, and who can contribute in a variety of ways, from a variety of cultures...and not just one..

    And guess what.. my family actually did actually immigrate here (and they are still alive and remember it)... but the difference is they did it legally. They waited in the queue, filed the forms, passed the exams and tests, got an education and learned English..

    But guess what.. Probably they could not today, because we are neck deep in Mexicans (and other central Americans) who cut ahead of the line and came here illegally, choking off legal immigration.

    Re: salsa, margarita, tacos and music, that is all nice and we had all that in the 80s already.
    But now we got banditos, large barrios in many cities and MS-13 Mexican gangs too..

    I don't want that in my country.. take it back to Mexico please.. Please get out, get in line and follow the process, like we did..

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