‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

Digital collage of a tech worker in a Slack window surrounded by imagery of ICE and CPB law enforcement.

Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don’t make trouble.

That’s what many tech workers are taking their CEOs’ strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security. Widespread violence by federal agents has sparked protests in Minneapolis and across the country. One month after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, and two weeks after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, the majority of tech CEOs have remained tight-lipped. Internally, workers from several companies describe a culture of silence and fear – and trepidation over what kind …

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