More than 100 Microsoft employees signed an open letter addressed to CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday, demanding that the company end its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The New York Times first reported on the letter, which was posted on an internal message board and calls on Microsoft to end its work with ICE in light of the agency separating families and children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Microsoft was in the spotlight Monday after an Azure blog post from January highlighting its work with ICE resurfaced on social media. The company later issued a statement, saying that Microsoft products are not being used specifically for the separation of families. Microsoft said it was “dismayed by the forcible separation of children from their families at the border.”
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