A small group of tech workers is calling on their CEOs to speak out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as the Trump administration deploys federal agents into metropolitan areas.
The petition, titled “Tech demands ICE out of our cities,” calls on tech leaders to “pick up the phone” and call the White House to demand Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents “leave our cities.”
Other demands include canceling company contracts with ICE and speaking out publicly against “ICE’s violence.”
The petition has received more than 250 signatories, which represents a small sliver of the overall tech workforce in the US.
Employees from Google and Amazon make up a plurality of the signatories, although not every participant chose to disclose their name; at the time of publication, roughly 170 of the signatories were named, the others chose only to share their title and or company.
Organizers of the petition were not disclosed. Business Insider reached out to the contact provided on the website and did not immediately get a response.
A spokesperson for Amazon declined to comment. A Google spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Trump administration has been aggressively executing on immigration enforcement; some of the tactics have led to highly publicized clashes between local community members and ICE agents.
Minneapolis — the city where George Floyd was killed by a police officer — recently became a focal point of an immigration crackdown, and where an ICE officer fatally shot Renee Good, a US citizen.
The Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, an AFL-CIO affiliate, endorsed a move on Saturday encouraging local residents to skip work on January 23.
The White House has also targeted the tech industry by attaching a higher fee to the H-1B visa — a program tech companies and other industries have relied on to hire overseas talent.
The move has seen ripple effects from Big Tech, down to higher education.
Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center showed a 5.9% decline in enrollment at US universities by graduate international students for the Fall 2025 semester.
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