Press and Updates

The Verge: ‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

Full article · February 11, 2026

Another petition that began circulating after Good’s death — created by the organization ICEout.tech and titled “Tech demands ICE out of our cities” — highlights the fact that when Trump wanted to send the national guard to San Francisco in October, tech industry leaders reportedly pressured him into backing off. Petition signatories are calling for tech CEOs to do the same thing now …The petition has garnered more than 2,000 public signatures to date, listing employees at Palantir, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, AWS, Apple, Anthropic, OpenAI, Salesforce, LinkedIn, TikTok, Spotify, Figma, Adobe, Mozilla, Stripe, Block, and more.

“There has been a very perceptible shift in how people are talking about what’s happening,” Lisa Conn, one of the organizers of the ICEout.tech petition . She said the petition started being shared in Signal groups and WhatsApp chats and has spread quickly in recent weeks, with even business leaders expressing their concerns about a potential economic crisis stemming from ICE’s actions. “When the government starts killing people on the streets, it’s really bad for business,” she said, adding, “This is not hypothetical. This is how economies hollow out.”

2,000+ Salesforce employees Urge Benioff to Denounce ICE

February 3, 2026

An internal letter from Salesforce staff began circulating the day CEO Marc Benioff joked at a company event that ICE was monitoring international employees in attendance. We’re told that within 48 hours, more than 2,000 employees had signed on.

ICEout.tech pledge reaches 2,000 signers

February 9, 2026

The pledge surpassed 2,000 signers, including notable new individuals including 25+ signers at Google, Apple. Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Salesforce, OpenAI and many other top tech companies. Notable additions include John O’Farrell (former Andreesen-Horowitz General Partner), Hunter Walk (Managing Partner, Homebrew), and Laszlo Bock (Former CHRO, Google).

More than 800 Google Workers Urge Company to Cancel Any Contracts with ICE or CBP

February 6, 2026

According to Wired, the campaign started by Google employees is “among the largest anti-ICE protests by workers at a single company since federal agents shot and killed two people in Minneapolis last month.”

TechCrunch: What tech CEOs and executives have said about ICE’s actions in Minnesota

Full article · February 3, 2026

“We know our industry leaders have leverage: in October, they persuaded Trump to call off a planned ICE surge in San Francisco,” ICEout.tech, a group of tech industry workers opposing ICE, wrote in a statement on January 24, the day of ICU nurse Alex Pretti’s death. “Big tech CEOs are in the White House tonight,” the statement added, referring to a screening of a documentary about Melania Trump where Cook, Amazon’s Andy Jassy, and Zoom’s Eric Yuan were in attendance. “Now they need to go further, and join us in demanding ICE out of all of our cities.”

Some of tech’s biggest players have since spoken out, to mixed reception from their employees and the industry.

USA Today: Why this ICE boycott wants consumers to resist Amazon and Google

Full article · February 2, 2026

“What’s going on now with ICE activity in Minneapolis is not a partisan issue. It’s not even an immigration enforcement issue,” [Senior Engineering Manager at Airbnb Gabe da Silveira] wrote in a LinkedIn post. “What we’re seeing is a blatantly unconstitutional invasion designed to suppress dissent through fear and intimidation” Da Silveira added, “Since these tech leaders have not demonstrated the courage to do what must be done, it is up to us, the tech workers and citizens of all stripes to step up for the American values that truly make us great.”

The Big Interview podcast: Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities (Featuring Lisa Conn and Pete Warden)

Podcast and full article · January 30, 2026

Worker-led demands like those were commonplace during Trump 1.0, when tech employees at the world’s biggest companies often spoke out—internally and externally—about the cruelty of the US administration and the industry’s role in facilitating or tempering its most craven policies. Today, though, a movement like ICEout.tech feels downright revolutionary.

KQED: Growing Wave of Silicon Valley Workers Condemns ICE as C-Suites Split Over Fear of Trump

Full article · January 29, 2026

Last week, more than 200 Silicon Valley staffers published an open letter urging tech leaders to use their platforms to call for ICE’s removal from U.S. cities. As of this story’s publication, the letter has roughly 1,000 signatories, including employees from Google, Amazon and TikTok — although many declined to list more than their job titles.

Los Angeles Times: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins tech leaders condemning ICE violence

Full article · January 28, 2026

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman joined a growing chorus of Silicon Valley leaders expressing outrage in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, aligning with tech industry workers who’ve urged CEOs to take a stronger stand against the violent immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

The tech executives joined a wider group of hundreds of engineers and other technology workers who have signed an open letter at ICEout.tech, condemning the violence in Minnesota and calling for industry leaders to “join us in demanding ICE out of all of our cities.”

In the open letter from tech workers, they urged tech companies to call the White House, cancel contracts with immigration enforcement and to speak out publicly against violence. “We know our industry leaders have leverage: In October, they persuaded Trump to call off a planned ICE surge in San Francisco, and big tech CEOS are in the White House tonight. Now they need to go further.”

ICEout.tech Pledge reaches 1,000 signers

January 27, 2026

Within 48 hours of Alex Pretti’s murder, more than 1,000 people from across tech pledged their commitment to use their positional power in the industry to stop ICE’s brutality.

The Guardian: US tech workers call on CEOs to demand Trump remove ICE from cities

Full article · January 27, 2026

More than 800 US tech workers have signed a petition calling for tech CEOs to demand the Trump administration remove US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from US cities and cancel contracts with the agency. “We know our industry leaders have leverage: in October, they persuaded Trump to call off a planned ICE surge in San Francisco,” the petition reads. “Now they need to go further, and join us in demanding ICE out of all of our cities.”

Signatories include nearly a hundred employees from Google, as well as dozens more from Meta, Amazon and OpenAI. One unnamed “Exec VP” from Elon Musk’s Tesla is also on the list. Tech workers have been largely silent about politics in the first year of the Trump administration. That tide is turning, say the petitioners.

New York Times: As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over Minneapolis Shootings

Full article · January 26, 2026

Executives, investors and engineers are speaking out against the Trump administration after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in moves reminiscent of Silicon Valley a decade ago.

“A letter, known as ICEout.tech, was spun up by some tech employees and spread quickly over social media. It has since amassed more than 500 signatures from engineers, venture capitalists and other tech workers calling for the industry to demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials leave U.S. cities, cancel contracts with the agency and to not remain silent, even if it may be politically risky.”

TechCrunch: Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

Full article · January 26, 2026

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leave U.S. cities.

“For months now, Trump has sent federal agents to our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family members,” reads the open letter from IceOut.Tech. “From Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Chicago, we’ve seen armed and masked thugs bring reckless violence, kidnapping, terror and cruelty with no end in sight.”

“This cannot continue, and we know the tech industry can make a difference,” the letter from tech industry workers continues. “When Trump threatened to send the National Guard to San Francisco in October, tech industry leaders called the White House. It worked: Trump backed down.”

Axios: Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE

Full article · January 26, 2026

Some tech workers are pressuring the industry’s top leaders to speak out against ICE after federal officers killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, less than a month after the shooting of Renee Good. More than 450 tech workers from companies including Google, Salesforce, Meta, OpenAI and Amazon have signed a letter urging CEOs to contact the White House, demand that ICE leave cities, and cancel all company contracts with ICE. “Tech professionals are speaking up against this brutality, and we call on all our colleagues who share our values to use their voice,” states the letter organized by ICEout.tech, an initiative pushing for tech CEOs to speak out against ICE.

The organizers of ICEout.tech said their call has even more urgency following the attendance of Amazon, AMD, Apple and Zoom executives at a White House screening of first lady Melania Trump’s new documentary just hours after the shooting.

ICEout.tech statement on the killing of Alex Pretti

January 24, 2026

We condemn the Border Patrol’s killing of Alex Pretti and the violent surge of federal agents across our cities. The wanton brutality we’ve seen from ICE and CBP has removed any credibility that these actions are about immigration enforcement. Their goal is terror, cruelty, and suppression of dissent. This must end. Tech professionals are speaking up against this brutality, and we call on all our colleagues who share our values to use their voice. We know our industry leaders have leverage: in October, they persuaded Trump to call off a planned ICE surge in San Francisco, and big tech CEOs are in the White House tonight. Now they need to go further, and join us in demanding ICE out of all of our cities.

USA Today: Tech CEOs have been quiet on ICE. Their workers want them to speak up

Full article · January 21, 2026

More than 300 tech workers have signed a public petition […] urging their employers – some of the world’s most powerful companies from Amazon to Google – to use their economic and political clout to press President Donald Trump to stop the aggressive immigration enforcement that resulted in the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, an unarmed mother of three.

“For months now, Trump has sent federal agents to our cities to criminalize us, our neighbors, friends, colleagues and family members. From Minneapolis to Los Angeles to Chicago, we’ve seen armed and masked thugs bring reckless violence, kidnapping, terror and cruelty with no end in sight,” the petition reads. “This cannot continue, and we know the tech industry can make a difference.”

“We want our CEOs to be calling the White House and saying that ICE needs to get out,” San Francisco-based HR consultant AnnE Diemer, who used to work at tech company Stripe, told USA TODAY in an interview.

Business Insider: Some tech workers want their CEOs to ‘call the White House’ and speak out against ICE

Full article · January 20, 2026

A small group of tech workers is calling on their CEOs to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the Trump administration deploys federal agents into metropolitan areas.The petition, titled “Tech demands ICE out of our cities,” calls on tech leaders to “pick up the phone” and call the White House to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “leave our cities.”

Other demands include canceling company contracts with ICE and speaking out publicly against “ICE’s violence.” The petition has received more than 250 signatories, which represents a small sliver of the overall tech workforce in the US.

Employees from Google and Amazon make up a plurality of the signatories, although not every participant chose to disclose their name; at the time of publication, roughly 170 of the signatories were named, the others chose only to share their title and or company.

The Washington Post: Tech workers ask their bosses to ‘call the White House’ over ICE raids

Full article · January 20, 2026

Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures… The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok, pointed to how tech chief executives helped dissuade President Donald Trump from deploying federal officers to San Francisco in October. It asked CEOs to repeat that effort on behalf of Minneapolis and other cities beset by Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and the resulting protests and violence.

Although signed by only a small minority of the tech workforce, the letter is notable for being one of the first mass demonstrations of opposition in Trump’s second term by an employee base that loudly protested some policies during his first — sometimes with vocal support from tech leaders.

“There is such a stereotype that tech is with Trump on this, and there are a lot of tech companies that have contracts with ICE, and I wanted to show that it isn’t all of us,” said [San Francisco-based HR consultant] AnnE Diemer, who previously worked at payments company Stripe. “We have a lot of power as a collective.”

Wired: Tech Workers Are Condemning ICE Even as Their CEOs Stay Quiet

Full article · January 14, 2026

After an ICE agent shot and killed an unarmed US citizen, Renee Nicole Good […] The most wealthy and powerful CEOs are still staying silent as ICE floods America’s streets, but now some researchers and engineers working for them have chosen to break rank. More than 150 tech workers so far have signed a petition asking for their company CEOs to call the White House, demand that ICE leave US cities, and speak out publicly against the agency’s recent violence.

“I think so many tech folks have felt like they can’t speak up,” Diemer told WIRED. “I want tech leaders to call the country’s leaders and condemn ICE’s actions, but even if this helps people find their people and take a small part in fighting fascism, then that’s cool, too.”

ICEout.tech launches pledge in the wake of Renee Good’s murder

January 8, 2026

After ICE shot and killed Renee Good in the streets of Minneapolis, a small group of individuals in tech decided to take action and issue the ICEout.tech pledge, to find like-minded people in our industry who are horrified and want this violence to end. We recognized the influence tech leaders have with the current administration, and decided to use our positions to speak up and come together.