Ubraries are beloved and protected spaces, treated as bastions of knowl learning. With this sunny reputation, it may bbe shocking to learn that UW Libraries ‘companies and agencies who Commit human rights abuses. In theit defense, UW Libraries argues that these ‘companies provide vital scholarly resou to students and staff, and without them, th work to stop these abuses can only be done if the UW community has access to In their Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and ‘Anti-Racism statement, UW Libraries state, “We bear the responsibilty to investigate and dismantle policies and practices that perpetuate inequities and have devalue neglected or harmed BIPOC and other ‘minoritized communities,” and, “The UW Libraries, as a community, commits to identifying, resourcing, and implementing nable next steps in pursuit of becoming a e equitable and anti-racist organization.” This zine serves to educate the University of Washington student body about UW's nections to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the extent to which the UW Libraries ignore and deny their Contributions to the detention of and deportation of undocumented people.We demand that UW end their contracts with Westlaw and LexisNexis, online legal research companies, who share data that enables ICE to detain land deport undocumented people, and that UW condemn these practices, And we suggest UW partner with other research databases who do not have a relationship with ICE; potential companies are Casemaker, Case Text, and Ross Intelligence. Beginning in the 1980s, UW began subscribing to the LexisNexis subscription service for Universities, Nexis Uni. In 2021, UW Libraries began contracting with Westlaw Research Primarily used by law students, LexisNexis and Westlaw provide universities access to case law and citator tools that link the law to specific i But in 2021, Thomson Reuters, the parent fa company of Westlaw, signed a $16 million contract with ICE, allowing ICE to buy personal data to track and locate undocumented individuals, atrocities through technology companies and the institutions, including UW, that fund them,) LexisNexis’ Westiaw and LexisNexis are owned by Thomson Reuters and RELX. Together, these companies have monopolized the legal research market by gradually purchasing large amounts of research collections that libraries rely on, THOMSON REUTERS LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters enable ICE to quickly and efficiently access personal data. This kind of access that lacks any oversight contributes to the era of mass surveillance and the continuous detention and deportation of undocumented individuals,Home % Property 20 monopol “Thomson Jes store ¥ eli prone ‘Utity infor © Venice in credit his! cation ne effc y ont adress Reuters an jaluable Pe mation rough E locates these individuals throug! their personal data, they are taken and kept in detention centers that are wrought with human rights abuses. tubject to being k The people there are subj i inhumane conditions with litle access to food and sanitary products, inadequate medical st Detention Center (NWDC) in VA isa for-profit detent herein our state with many Prior to October 2021, detain forced {0 work harsh jobs for as litle as $1 a day. rete have been mutiple reports of maggots in the food at the NWDC, as well as food Poisoning, food that does not m: ‘nutrtional standards of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as other major healthICE uses their contracted full access to track down anyone they suspect is undocumented. This includes accessing National Consumer Telecom & Utlities Exchange (NCTUE) and Equifax utlity data through Thomson Reuters ‘and LexisNexis. In NCTUE alone, ICE can ‘access data from 218 milion consumers from amazon webservices 96 internet, television, telephone, electricity, and gas companies. Palantiris another tech company that provides. ICE with the resources they use to conduct workplace raids and screening atthe border. Palani built ICE's Investigative Case Management (ICM) system hich combines information from various governmental agencies database in order to surveil undocumented immigrants. The 1 company pays $600,000 per month to use Palantirhas been an Allen School Industry ‘Amazon Web Services servers, which hosts Alia since 2007 and has spent over a other Department of Homeland Security decade courting UW undergraduates to join C= S immigration-related databases. i 3 their ranks. a]‘As UW students we must Educate ourselves and our peers Apply pressure on UW to cut contracts Don't take jobs that contribute to the pipeline Sign our petition to demand UW ends their connection to ICE & | We urge students not to take jobs with {technology companies who collaborate with ICE, namely Amazon and PalantrWe also encourage UW students to educate their peers about UW's involvement in harmful data sharing practices among technology ‘companies. Together we can work to hold our university accountable for where they put their ‘money and who they are supporting in the process, | Art by Alejandro W. Poler for Mijente 2019. 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