Image: Amazon workers, Seattle-area immigrant rights groups and community members dump bags of ice on the ground and call on Amazon to end its contracts with federal immigration agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, during a rally Friday at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle. (Karen Ducey / The Seattle Times)

Dozens of community members, activists and Amazon employees rallied in front of the rain-streaked Spheres on Friday in downtown Seattle, demanding Amazon cut ties with immigration-related government agencies.

Those in the crowd came ready for wet weather, wearing Gore-Tex rain jackets and holding laminated signs as they chanted “shame” while speakers named activists killed by federal agents over recent months. Speakers lambasted the business relationship between Amazon and agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

ICE and CBP have spent $140 million buying cloud services from Amazon and Microsoft during the second Trump administration, Forbes reported in January.

Organizers of the rally, led by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, No Tech for Apartheid, Defend Immigrants Alliance and other community groups, set out their demands on Thursday. Those included Amazon ending its cloud-computing support to ICE and CBP; ending its partnerships with Palantir, a company whose data has reportedly been used by ICE; and ending Amazon-owned Ring’s partnership with Flock, a police surveillance tech company.

Though Amazon didn’t say the move was in response to activists’ demands, the company did scrap its involvement with Flock on Thursday.

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