US-based cloud providers large, Salesforce, workers are urging the corporate’s Chief Government Officer (CEO), Marc Benioff, to drop potential enterprise alternatives with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) company, reported the information portal CNBCciting individuals conscious of the event on 10 February 2026.
“We’re involved that Salesforce services could also be enabling ICE to increase recruitment, onboarding and operational capability,” in keeping with the supplementary doc with the letter cited by the information company.
Greater than 1,400 workers have signed the letter addressed to the corporate CEO, highlighting their troubles with the corporate’s plan to assist ICE rent 10,000 new brokers and vet tip-line experiences utilizing its providers.
“We’re deeply troubled by latest press experiences describing Salesforce pitches of AI expertise to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to assist the company ‘expeditiously’ rent 10,000 new brokers and vet tip-line experiences,” in keeping with the letter cited within the information report.
Cancel all lively pitches?
In line with the information portal’s report, the worker’s letter to the CEO seeks cancellation of all “lively pitches” or “alternatives” for ICE enforcement and hiring, whereas additionally asking Salesforce to concern a public assertion to take away all masked brokers in US cities.
This transfer from Salesforce workers serves as the most recent instance of workers working within the expertise sector elevating their considerations over ICE utilizing their firm providers after killing US residents Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota in January 2026, reported the information portal.
ICE — A subject of criticism?
Individuals conscious of the event additionally advised the information portal that Salesforce CEO Benioff joking about ICE brokers being current on the worker gathering in Las Vegas led to workers criticising the identical in an inside Slack discussion board. Benioff’s alleged transfer was reported first by 404 Media.
Staff who signed the letter are asking Salesforce to inform its employees what sort of providers it gives to the US ICE and “pause or prohibit infrastructure, AI methods or providers that allow ICE operational scale-up.”
The letter from the workers comes at a time when the buyers are already involved about doubtlessly AI fashions affecting the corporate’s progress prospects in software program.
In line with the information portal’s report, the letter from Salesforce workers comes after 900 Google workers requested the search engine large to divest itself from ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Safety as of final week.
Salesforce layoffs
Information portal Enterprise Insider on 10 February 2026, reported that Salesforce Inc., has allegedly laid off as much as 1,000 workers firstly of within the present month.
Citing Salesforce Inc., LinkedIn posts and profiles, the job cuts allegedly affected job roles together with advertising and marketing, product administration, information analytics, and Agentforce verticals.
The transfer comes amid the corporate CEO Marc Benioff’s plan to shake up the operations, appointing six new leaders to switch 5 present workers, and the corporate’s synthetic intelligence (AI) plans.
In line with earlier media experiences, the CEO mentioned that the corporate reduce the roles of almost 4,000 buyer assist workers as synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments take a bigger share within the customer support in 2025.
“I used to be capable of rebalance my headcount on my assist. From 9,000 heads to about 5,000 as a result of I want much less heads,” mentioned Benioff. The layoffs come after the cloud firm was not capable of get again to potential shoppers who they’d referred to as earlier because of not having sufficient individuals on the group.