Salesforce employees protest against the company's work with the US Border Agency

Hundreds of Salesforce employees oppose their company's work with a US border agency in a context of growing backlash of Trump administration work aimed at separating some families that cross the border. US-Mexican border.

More than 650 employees of the cloud computing giant have signed a letter urging CEO Marc Benioff to re-evaluate the contract with US customers and border protection, fearing that this work will make them "complicit in the inhuman treatment of vulnerable people". Salesforce announced an agreement in March to revise the agency's recruitment process and "manage border activities."

"We are particularly concerned about the use of Cloud Service to manage border activities," reads the letter, which was obtained by BuzzFeed News. "Given the inhuman separation of their parents' children currently taking place at the border, we believe that our core value of equality is at stake and that Salesforce should re-examine our contractual relationship with CBP and denounce its practices. . "

The letter goes on to urge Benioff to "develop a plan to review the use of all our products, and the extent to which they are used to harm."

The letter is part of the outrage the technological community expressed on the "zero tolerance" policy of President Donald Trump, who until wednesday children separated from their parents when they illegally cross the borders of the United States. This decision resulted in the US government sending thousands of children to camps across the country, whose images sparked international outrage, even within Trump's own party.

Yielding to the generalized pressure, Trump signed Wednesday a decree that reverses the policy of separation.

Letter from Salesforce employees arrives almost a week after more than 100 Microsoft employees signed a similar letter protest the work of their company with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and ask the company to cease operations with the agency.

Salesforce said it was unaware of the involvement of its products in Trump's family separation policy.

"We believe that every human life has equal value and every person should be treated with dignity and respect. We do not work with US Customs and Border Protection regarding the separation of families at the border," said a Salesforce spokesman . "And we are not aware of the Salesforce services used by CBP for this purpose."

Regarding the letter, the spokesperson said, "One of the biggest benefits of being part of the Salesforce family is that we proudly promote an open exchange of ideas and dialogues: we are proud of our passionate and vocal employees. the conversation on this and other important topics. "

CBP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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