Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

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 on Tuesday.

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. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

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.

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The letter has attracted more than 220 signatories in a little over a week, Diemer said. More than 140 made their names and employers public, including six from Google, three from Amazon, and two each from Meta, TikTok and Salesforce. Some hold senior roles, including a chief technology architect at Nokia, a senior vice president at Mozilla and numerous chief executives of smaller companies.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/20/tech-ice-letter-protest/

[Crowman2009]

1. Unless these tech workers unionize and organize, these signatures are useless.

[ancianita]

2. These signatures also show tech owners who would be the likely source of net disruptions against this administration.

Which The People would applaud. And which would also get the owners to think twice about who is in real control of their companies' operations.