Over 1,400 Salesforce employees urge tech giant to drop business with ICE authorities; say ‘We are deeply troubled…’
Employees of US-based cloud services giant Salesforce are urging the company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Marc Benioff to abandon possible job opportunities with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, the news portal reported. CNBCIt refers to people aware of the development on February 10, 2026.
“We are concerned that Salesforce products and services may enable ICE to expand its recruiting, hiring and operational capacity,” according to an accompanying document to the letter cited by the news agency.
More than 1,400 employees signed the letter addressed to the company’s CEO, highlighting the company’s frustrations with the plan to help ICE hire 10,000 new agents, and signed veterinary tip line reports using its services.
“We are deeply disturbed by recent press reports and veterinary tip line reports describing Salesforce offering AI technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to help the agency ‘expeditiously’ hire 10,000 new agents,” according to the letter cited in the story.
Cancel all active presentations?
According to the news portal’s report, the employee’s letter to the CEO calls for the cancellation of all “active sites” or “opportunities” for ICE enforcement and recruitment, while also asking Salesforce to issue a public statement to remove all masked agents in US cities.
This move by Salesforce employees serves as the latest example of employees working in the technology sector voicing their concerns over ICE’s use of the company’s services after killing US citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota in January 2026, the news portal reported.
ICE — Subject to criticism?
People aware of the development also told the news portal that Salesforce CEO Benioff joked about the presence of ICE representatives at the employee meeting in Las Vegas, prompting employees to criticize the same in an internal Slack forum. Benioff’s alleged move was first reported by 404 Media.
Employees who signed the letter are asking Salesforce to tell employees what types of services it provides to U.S. ICE and to “pause or prohibit infrastructure, AI systems or services that enable ICE’s operational scaling.”
The letter from employees comes at a time when investors are already concerned about potential artificial intelligence models impacting the company’s growth prospects in the software space.
According to the news portal, the letter from Salesforce employees came after 900 Google employees asked the search engine giant to withdraw itself from ICE and US Customs and Border Protection as of last week.
Layoffs at Salesforce
news portal Business Content On February 10, 2026, it was alleged that Salesforce Inc. had laid off up to 1,000 employees earlier this month.
Salesforce Inc., citing LinkedIn posts and profiles, claims the layoffs affected job roles including the marketing, product management, data analytics and Agentforce sectors.
The move comes as company CEO Marc Benioff plans to shake up operations, appoint six new leaders to replace five existing employees, and the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) plans.
According to previous media reports, the CEO said the company was cutting the jobs of nearly 4,000 customer support staff as artificial intelligence (AI) tools will take a larger share of customer service by 2025.
“With your support, I was able to rebalance my headcount. From 9,000 heads to about 5,000 because I need fewer heads,” Benioff said. The layoffs came after the cloud company was unable to reach out to potential customers it had previously sought out due to not enough people on the team.
