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Stanford students are vowing not to work at Salesforce over its border patrol deal

Dozens of students have signed a pledge to not intern or work for Salesforce unless it drops its contract with Customs and Border Protection.

Stanford students are vowing not to work at Salesforce over its border patrol deal

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff [Photo: World Economic Forum/Wikimedia Commons]

BY Sean Captain0 minute read

Salesforce and CEO Marc Benioff are winning some love among progressives, especially since going all in ($7 million worth) to support San Francisco’s Prop C business tax to fund housing and homeless assistance.

But one issue in particular dogs the company–its decision to maintain a cloud services contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, sister organization to the family-separating ICE. Tech workers, including Salesforce employees, have petitioned against the deal. And now potential future tech workers and employees have joined in. Students at Stanford have begun a petition pledging to not interview with the company unless it drops the CBP contract.


Related: Anti-ICE protesters descend on Salesforce Tower in San Francisco


“Stanford being the CS [computer science] and Silicon Valley capital, we thought we could raise more awareness on campus,” says Sarah Tran, a sophomore studying symbolic systems. “Salesforce is a big internship company. A lot of people I know intern there.”

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Over 60 people have signed the petition as of this writing. Tran says that she and co-organizers have verified that the signatories are all Stanford students, but not all are in computer science or other technical fields.

I reached out to Salesforce for comment and will update if I hear back.

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Sean Captain is a business, technology, and science journalist based in North Carolina. Follow him on Twitter @seancaptain. More


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