More than 800 employees sign petition calling for withdrawal of ICE agents and cancellation of contracts
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.
The killing of the 37-year-old nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by ICE agents over the weekend has generated a widespread backlash from groups as varied as Reddit users, a nurses union of registered nurses, faith leaders and the right-leaning National Rifle Association.
