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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco [View all]
Another billionaire for Trump. 
Salesforce Tries to Help ICE Boost Its Immigration Force
The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, shocked San Franciscans last week when he said that he “fully supports” President Trump and wants National Guard troops deployed to their city.
Mr. Benioff’s support of the National Guard ran counter to the city’s famously liberal underpinnings and to his own reputation as a benefactor of progressive causes. San Francisco leaders, already outraged by those remarks, were upset to learn on Thursday that the homegrown company was trying to help Mr. Trump with his immigration crackdown.
Salesforce, which also contracted with ICE under the Obama and Biden administrations, is far from the only tech company helping ICE drastically expand its enforcement efforts under Mr. Trump. Palantir, the Denver-based software company co-founded by the conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, is a major partner of ICE. Microsoft and IBM also have contracts with the agency.
The company’s ICE Slack channel included chatter about Salesforce employees attending a Border Security Expo in April with the hopes of meeting Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, to “applaud him on his efforts.”
.... Benihoff has long been considered a liberal benefactor ….. He hosted a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton when she ran against Mr. Trump in 2016. He funded the campaign for a 2018 city ballot measure to tax businesses, including his own, to support homeless services. He canceled Salesforce travel to Indiana after the state enacted a law that allowed companies to refuse business to L.G.B.T.Q. people on religious grounds.
The San Francisco-based firm has told ICE that it could use A.I. to help the agency nearly triple its staff. The company’s C.E.O., once a progressive tech titan, has embraced President Trump.
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, shocked San Franciscans last week when he said that he “fully supports” President Trump and wants National Guard troops deployed to their city.
Mr. Benioff’s support of the National Guard ran counter to the city’s famously liberal underpinnings and to his own reputation as a benefactor of progressive causes. San Francisco leaders, already outraged by those remarks, were upset to learn on Thursday that the homegrown company was trying to help Mr. Trump with his immigration crackdown.
Salesforce, which also contracted with ICE under the Obama and Biden administrations, is far from the only tech company helping ICE drastically expand its enforcement efforts under Mr. Trump. Palantir, the Denver-based software company co-founded by the conservative billionaire Peter Thiel, is a major partner of ICE. Microsoft and IBM also have contracts with the agency.
The company’s ICE Slack channel included chatter about Salesforce employees attending a Border Security Expo in April with the hopes of meeting Tom Homan, Mr. Trump’s border czar, to “applaud him on his efforts.”
.... Benihoff has long been considered a liberal benefactor ….. He hosted a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton when she ran against Mr. Trump in 2016. He funded the campaign for a 2018 city ballot measure to tax businesses, including his own, to support homeless services. He canceled Salesforce travel to Indiana after the state enacted a law that allowed companies to refuse business to L.G.B.T.Q. people on religious grounds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/us/salesforce-benioff-ice.html
And then:
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Democratic donor Ron Conway resigns from Salesforce Foundation over Benioff’s National Guard comments - POLITICO
Venture capitalist Ron Conway said Benioff’s recent calls for National Guard troops in San Francisco left him barely recognizing the person he has so long admired.
Venture capitalist Ron Conway said Benioff’s recent calls for National Guard troops in San Francisco left him barely recognizing the person he has so long admired.
....more at link
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