Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE
theregister.co.ukMore than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.
In October, when President Trump threatened to send federal law enforcement to San Francisco, tech leaders reportedly called the White House and Trump reversed course, telling reporters that phone calls from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had changed his mind.
Meanwhile, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and National Guard troops were deployed to other cities, including Portland, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, where federal agents have now shot and killed two people, Pretti and Renee Good, this month.
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 ...
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