Salesforce Will Keep Ties to Border Agency After Protest
- CEO says company products not used in family separation policy
- Benioff responds to employees’ letter to revisit contract
Marc Benioff
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Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff rejected calls from employees to reconsider business ties with U.S. Customs and Border Protection over the separation of immigrant families, saying the company’s software isn’t involved in the agency’s policy at the U.S.-Mexico border.
“I’m opposed to separating children from their families at the border. It is immoral,” Benioff wrote Wednesday in a memo to Salesforce employees obtained by Bloomberg News. “I have personally financially supported legal groups helping families at the border. I also wrote to the White House to encourage them to end this horrible situation.”