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Capgemini will sell a US subsidiary that has come under fire for its contracts with the US immigration enforcement agency that involved the French IT services group in the tracking and deportation of individuals.
The company said the divestment of the Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) business would begin immediately, though it did not refer directly to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement contract.
“Capgemini determined that the customary legal restrictions imposed for contracting with federal government entities carrying out classified activities in the US did not allow the Group to exercise appropriate control over certain aspects of the operations of this subsidiary,” it said on Sunday.
French ministers have criticised the group for its lack of oversight over the contracts for so-called skip-tracing services — used to locate people for legal processes on behalf of ICE using data analysis and private investigators.
The company has said previously that the US unit operates autonomously in order to meet US requirements to handle sensitive government contracts.
Capgemini said CGS represented 0.4 per cent of global estimated revenues for 2025, and less than 2 per cent of its turnover in the US.
The scrutiny of external contractors to ICE follows the backlash against the US immigration agency after its officers shot and killed two US citizens in Minnesota, sparking sustained and widespread protests.
ICE violence and brutal tactics in enforcing the Trump administration’s policies of large-scale deportation have attracted international government attention. Italy last week sought to quell tensions over the inclusion of ICE agents as part of the security for the US Winter Olympics delegation by clarifying that agents would be confined to the US consulate in Milan.
Capgemini has signed $12.2mn in contracts for skip tracing under the Trump administration on top of earlier work worth $2.5mn in data support. ICE has said it plans to spend up to $281mn through vendors as it seeks to investigate 1.5mn addresses.
Capgemini said earlier this week that its most recent contract with ICE signed in December was “not currently being executed” and that it became aware of it “through public sources”. French finance minister Roland Lescure criticised the group for not having sufficient oversight of its subsidiaries.
Most US federal contracts, including ones with ICE, are publicly available online through the government’s Federal Procurement Data System.
A solicitation document published in November by ICE said vendors would be asked to “verify alien address information” and “confirm the new location of aliens” using both digital tools and “in-person surveillance”.
The Trump administration gave ICE an extra $75bn last year to pursue aggressive deportation quotas, creating lucrative opportunities for the agency’s contractors.
