We commissioned this report at the onset of the Trump administration, knowing that immigration enforcement would be a centerpiece of their agenda. We know that the fight to #AbolishICE and defend immigrant communities will require action at both the federal and local level. Given our current administration, however, significant change in Washington, D.C., is unlikely. For true accountability, we must turn to both local political allies and those in the private sector to address the surveillance and tech infrastructure that directly and indirectly facilitate the immigration dragnet.

It is also clear that policing, detention, and deportation have, indeed, become lucrative enterprises for Silicon Valley companies, and they will only continue to expand without the public scrutiny and proactive measures needed to stop them. And although those solutions are still in the making, we know that there must be multiple tactics and strategies to defend our communities, including:

1. We call on states, cities, and local municipalities to expand their “sanctuary city” policies by ending: (1) contracts that allow unfettered information sharing technologies and biometric collection to and from ICE; (2) contracts with private data brokers that work with ICE, and (3) predictive policing programs such as those developed by Palantir. Cities and states that have contracts with Palantir should immediately cancel those contracts. Stopping local law enforcement agencies from collecting, storing, and accessing data on Palantir systems is one important step toward ensuring the civil and human rights of local residents. States should also consider passing strong biometrics privacy protection laws that will allow people to decide how and if their intimate biometric scans should be used

2. We call on tech company employees to continue raising their voices against their companies’ contracts with military, police, and immigration agencies. Executives are being put on notice — by the international community, by immigrant rights activists, and by their very own workers. Thousands of tech workers at different firms, from Google to Amazon to Microsoft, have decried their companies’ contracts with military and immigration agencies, threatening to withhold their labor if human rights guidelines are not produced to govern the use of tech they themselves created. Tech companies have the means to declare their values and oppose the systems that are jailing immigrants and creating fear within vulnerable communities everywhere.

3. We call for increased public scrutiny to track Amazon’s and Palantir’s dominance in meeting the data storage needs of various federal agencies: