“I'm really sick of ICE, how about you?” AnnE Diemer, a San Francisco human resources consultant, posted on LinkedIn.
A week later, more than 300 tech workers have signed a public petition she drafted, 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,” Diemer, who used to work at tech company Stripe, told USA TODAY in an interview.
She pointed to the role Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang played in persuading the White House not to dispatch National Guard troops to her hometown in November.
