{"id":41942,"date":"2026-02-10T20:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red94.net\/news\/marc-benioff-draws-backlash-for-making-ice-jokes-at-salesforce-event\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T20:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:46:06","slug":"48316-marc-benioff-draws-backlash-for-making-ice-jokes-at-salesforce-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red94.net\/news\/48316-marc-benioff-draws-backlash-for-making-ice-jokes-at-salesforce-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Benioff draws backlash for making ICE jokes at Salesforce event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style='font-size:1.1em;font-weight:500;line-height:1.6;margin-bottom:20px'><b>Marc Benioff<\/b> sparked outrage at <b>Salesforce<\/b>&#8216;s company kickoff. The <b>CEO<\/b> made multiple jokes about <b>ICE<\/b> targeting international employees. Furious staff are now circulating an open letter demanding action.<\/p>\n<div style='background:#f9f9f9;padding:20px;border-left:4px solid #e74c3c;margin:25px 0'>\n<h3 style='margin-top:0'>\ud83d\udd25 Quick Facts<\/h3>\n<ul style='margin:10px 0;padding-left:20px'>\n<li><b>Event location<\/b>: Salesforce Company Kickoff in Las Vegas on Tuesday, February 10, 2026<\/li>\n<li><b>The jokes<\/b>: Benioff joked that ICE agents were monitoring international employees he had just thanked for attending<\/li>\n<li><b>Employee reaction<\/b>: Dozens of Slack messages show shock, anger, and disappointment from staff members<\/li>\n<li><b>Open letter<\/b>: Workers are circulating an internal letter calling on Benioff to denounce ICE and ban Salesforce from the agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>A Costly Joke About Immigration Enforcement<\/h2>\n<p><b>Benioff<\/b> asked <b>international employees<\/b> to stand during his opening keynote. He thanked them for traveling to the <b>Las Vegas<\/b> event. Then he made a joke about <b>ICE agents<\/b> being in the building to monitor them.<\/p>\n<p>According to employees at the meeting, <b>the room groaned<\/b>. Some staff said they couldn&#8217;t believe he said that. <b>Dozens of Slack messages<\/b> immediately erupted across the company.<\/p>\n<p>The <b>CEO<\/b> followed up with a second joke about <b>ICE<\/b> surveillance. He then made an unrelated comment about <b>Bad Bunny&#8217;s Super Bowl halftime performance<\/b>. Staff found the string of comments tone-deaf and cruel.<\/p>\n<h2>Staff Fury Spreads Across Slack Channels<\/h2>\n<p>One employee posted: &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to believe this company still has values when you make completely off-base jokes about <b>ICE<\/b> in your opening keynote. That&#8217;s unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another wrote: &#8220;I&#8217;m deeply disappointed and uncomfortable that two jokes about <b>ICE<\/b> were made in the first few minutes of <b>Marc&#8217;s opening keynote<\/b>. The fact that the first was made after welcoming our teammates who traveled from outside the <b>US<\/b>? Even worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A third message stated: &#8220;A joke about <b>ICE surveilling employees&#8217; travel<\/b>, when there are literally employees afraid to travel for work due to current situation.&#8221; Employees noted that many staff have genuine safety concerns about <b>ICE<\/b> operations.<\/p>\n<h2>Salesforce&#8217;s Controversial ICE Relationship<\/h2>\n<table style='width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;margin:20px 0'>\n<tr style='background:#f4f4f4'>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd;font-weight:bold'>Issue<\/td>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd;font-weight:bold'>Detail<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Salesforce pitch to ICE<\/td>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Offered AI technology to help hire 10,000 new agents and agents expeditiously<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='background:#f9f9f9'>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Current detention<\/td>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>ICE currently detains 66,000 people, 73% with no criminal record<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Recent incidents<\/td>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style='background:#f9f9f9'>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Employee concern<\/td>\n<td style='padding:12px;border:1px solid #ddd'>Using Agentforce AI infrastructure to scale mass deportation agenda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote style='border-left:4px solid #3498db;padding-left:20px;margin:25px 0;font-style:italic;color:#555'><p>&#8220;We are deeply troubled by leaked documentation revealing that Salesforce has pitched AI technology to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help the agency &#8216;expeditiously&#8217; hire 10,000 new agents and vet tip-line reports. Providing &#8216;Agentforce&#8217; infrastructure to scale a mass deportation agenda currently detaining 66,000 people represents a fundamental betrayal of our commitment to the ethical use of technology.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='font-size:0.9em;color:#666;margin-top:-15px'>\u2014 Salesforce employees&#8217; open letter circulating internally<\/p>\n<h2>The Open Letter Amplifies Employee Demands<\/h2>\n<p><b>Multiple Salesforce employees<\/b> are now circulating an internal open letter. The letter calls on <b>Benioff<\/b> to publicly denounce <b>ICE<\/b>. It demands <b>Salesforce<\/b> ban its software from being used by immigration agents.<\/p>\n<p>The letter references the <b>recent killings<\/b> as catalysts. It calls the deaths &#8220;a devastating indictment of a system that has discarded human decency.&#8221; It argues <b>Benioff<\/b> has unique influence in <b>Washington<\/b> as a tech leader and <b>Time magazine<\/b> owner.<\/p>\n<p>The letter cites a <b>2025 incident<\/b> when <b>Benioff and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang<\/b> reportedly convinced <b>Trump<\/b> to hold off on <b>ICE deployments<\/b> in <b>San Francisco<\/b>. It urges him to use that influence again to push for <b>federal legislation<\/b> that would reform the agency.<\/p>\n<h2>Historical Pattern of Controversial Benioff Comments<\/h2>\n<p><b>This isn&#8217;t Benioff&#8217;s first major misstep<\/b>. In <b>October 2025<\/b>, he suggested <b>President Trump<\/b> deploy the <b>National Guard<\/b> to <b>San Francisco<\/b> ahead of <b>Dreamforce<\/b>. Intense backlash followed, and <b>Benioff apologized<\/b> days later.<\/p>\n<p>Then he reversed course, joining <b>Nvidia&#8217;s Jensen Huang<\/b> in asking <b>Trump<\/b> to refrain from sending troops. <b>Benioff<\/b> cited genuine safety concerns as his motivation.<\/p>\n<p>But insiders say <b>today&#8217;s backlash<\/b> is significantly more forceful. One source told reporters: &#8220;Lots of people are furious.&#8221; Another said the internal pushback is stronger than even the <b>National Guard controversy<\/b>. The combination of the joke and <b>Salesforce&#8217;s known ICE contracts<\/b> has proven especially damaging.<\/p>\n<h2>Will Benioff Respond to the Growing Pressure?<\/h2>\n<p><b>Salesforce hasn&#8217;t commented yet<\/b> on the jokes or the open letter. <b>Benioff<\/b> has shifted his political stance in recent months. Previously, he backed <b>Democratic<\/b> candidates and causes.<\/p>\n<p>But since <b>January 2026<\/b>, he&#8217;s signaled greater openness to <b>Republican<\/b> leaders. He&#8217;s claimed he stays nonpartisan due to owning <b>Time magazine<\/b>. Yet he joked about donating a <b>Trump cover<\/b> to the president&#8217;s inauguration fund.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also facing leadership turnover. <b>Salesforce lost<\/b> its <b>Slack CEO<\/b>, <b>Tableau chief<\/b>, and <b>AI executive<\/b> in recent weeks. Internal morale appears increasingly fragile. How <b>Benioff<\/b> responds to this letter could signal whether he&#8217;s willing to change course, or if <b>Salesforce employees<\/b> should expect more contentious moments ahead.<\/p>\n<h3>Sources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Business Insider<\/b> &#8211; Reported internal Slack messages showing employee anger and disappointment<\/li>\n<li><b>404 Media<\/b> &#8211; Obtained detailed employee accounts and Slack conversations from the event<\/li>\n<li><b>WIRED<\/b> &#8211; Covered the open letter and broader context of Salesforce&#8217;s ICE relationships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"schema_org_data":"{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Marc Benioff\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.themoviedb.org\/person\/1497558\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Bad 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