Families across America are being torn apart by an immigration system driven by fear and powered by technology. Children come home from school to find their parents gone, our communities live in constant anxiety.  Even refugees fleeing war, such as Ukrainians who sought safety in the US, now face the risk of detention or deportation. When technology companies lend their tools to agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), they become silent enablers of these human tragedies. According to The New York Times article "Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force", Salesforce recently pitched its platform and AI capabilities to ICE to help accelerate deportation hiring and investigations, positioning our technology as a “force multiplier” for the very operations separating families. As a Salesforce employee and a mother whose daughter goes to school alongside immigrant children already affected by deportation, I cannot look away from this reality. The people harmed are our colleagues, neighbors, and friends.

Salesforce has built its reputation on the values of Trust, Equality, and Compassion. If we ignore how our technology might be weaponized against vulnerable families, we risk betraying those very principles and losing the moral credibility that makes Salesforce a force for good in the world. Allowing our products or AI to aid an agency responsible for inhumane practices, raids, family separation, and detention undermines not just our brand but our shared humanity. Once technology normalizes the targeting of immigrants, the boundary between “helping” and “harming” becomes dangerously thin, and history shows how easily that line can disappear. At stake is more than one contract: it is the soul of a company that claims to put people first. Salesforce’s tools can be used to reunite families, streamline asylum processing, and support humanitarian relief. But if we continue down this path, our innovation risks fueling injustice instead of healing it.

Now is the moment for Salesforce to live up to the ideals it professes. The public revelation of the ICE pitch is not only a scandal, it is also an opportunity to choose integrity over profit. Every day we delay, more families are torn apart, and more trust is lost. We call on Salesforce leadership to act decisively by:

1. Immediately ending all current and future business relationships with ICE and any institution engaged in detention, deportation, or inhumane treatment of immigrants and refugees.
2. Adopting a transparent “No Tech for Deportation” policy to ensure Salesforce products, data, and AI are never used to harm immigrant families or violate human rights.
3. Committing to an independent audit of all government-related contracts to verify that Salesforce technology aligns with our stated values of trust, equality, and human dignity.

The tech community is watching, our customers are watching, and — most importantly — our children are watching. Let us choose to be remembered as the company that had the courage to align its actions with its values. Together, we can ensure that the cloud we build uplifts humanity instead of enabling its suffering.