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

  • Hayden Field
  • February 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

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 …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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