Opposing/preventing/protesting your company’s contracts with ICE
Hi all, sorry, throwaway account here. My main account is pretty personally identifiable and I’d rather be anonymous about this at the moment.
I work in a fairly niche tech sub-industry at the director level. Company is about ~2000 people, US-based, but global offices. I have 40 years of experience and 20 years at this company, but ideally am still 2-3 years from retirement. I was poking around in Salesforce on Friday and discovered an Opp in the early stages for a deal with ICE. (Honestly, I’m surprised it’s taken this long.) The use case - given what we know ICE actually does as opposed to their stated mission - I think is abhorrent. Thank god not any products or software that my team or I (or even my division) work on. BUT, given our company’s emphasis on ETHICS, company values, and Doing The Right Thing, this (not small) deal flies in the face of that and would be incredibly hypocritical. Never mind that it would tarnish the brand (which I would like to think actually means something, you know?) God knows the company needs revenue, but at what cost??
My question is, has anyone dealt with trying to derail something like this? My first thought is to submit an anonymous complaint through our 3rd party whistleblower-type system, where I know it will be tracked and at least shown to people who should see it. (Because this is recent, I do not think it is yet widely known.) I don’t want to make it about ME, because that’s not really the point. (I don’t really have any influence in the wider company beyond my division.) I also don’t want to make it about me because while they talk a good game about no retaliation, who knows how that will play out in real life it you are trying to prevent a large deal? Advice, please? Thanks!
Posted Jan 11, 2026, 8:13 PM UTC