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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dani Anguiano

Salesforce workers outraged after CEO makes joke about ICE watching them

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff arrives at a Super Bowl LX party at Quince in San Francisco.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff arrives at a Super Bowl LX party at Quince in San Francisco. Photograph: Santiago Mejia/AP

Marc Benioff, the Salesforce CEO and co-founder, is facing growing criticism over a joke he made about US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) monitoring international employees during an event for the company.

Employees publicly expressed outrage about Benioff’s comments in his keynote address at an internal conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, and leaders at Slack, which Salesforce owns, have said he should apologize.

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