"The tech industry's C-suite has yet to publicly speak out against these recent fatal shootings involving federal agents - or the larger dismantling of democracy and the international order under the Trump administration - but their employees are, with hundreds of workers from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, and many, many other companies demanding ICE leave American cities."
""This cannot continue, and we know the tech industry can make a difference," according to the ICEout tech petition that calls on CEOs to do three things: Call the White House and demand that ICE leave our cities. Cancel all company contracts with ICE. Speak out publicly against ICE's violence."
"The Register contacted 16 companies (Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Cloudflare, Google, IBM, Lyft, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Okta, OpenAI, PayPal, Salesforce, and Stripe) whose employees signed their support for the ICEout efforts and asked if their CEOs planned to take any of the above actions. None of them immediately responded to our inquiries."
More than 400 tech workers urged their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave cities after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. In October, phone calls from Nvidia and Salesforce CEOs reportedly persuaded President Trump to reverse plans to send federal law enforcement to San Francisco. Federal agents and National Guard troops were deployed to cities including Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, where agents have shot and killed two people this month. About 450 tech employees signed the ICEout petition calling for CEOs to call the White House, cancel ICE contracts, and speak out publicly. Sixteen companies contacted did not immediately respond.
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