After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract
What a bummer that workers are publicly demanding this, and (presumably) seeking press attention on it.<p>I&#x27;m no fan of ICE – a very large percentage of my friends in the US are immigrants, and I generally want my country to be a welcoming one. ICE has certainly committed unethical and probably illegal acts (probably true of most federal agencies).<p>But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. It&#x27;d attract extreme negative attention from the rest of the government, and great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.<p>We should absolutely be lobbying hard for changes to immigration law, the restrictions placed on ICE, and justice for their wrongdoings.<p>But I can&#x27;t see how this helps improve immigration, and it certainly seems likely to cause a lot of negative consequences for GitHub. The employees are putting their employer in a &quot;damned if they do, damned if they don&#x27;t&quot; situation.<p>EDIT: Just to clarify, I love the vision of a world where executives don&#x27;t take actions their workers will protest. I think that in order to get there, the protests need to be reasonable, and I think this one isn&#x27;t.<p>EDIT DISCLAIMER: I own a small amount of MSFT stock, which was not on my mind as I wrote this. I use GitHub&#x27;s free service and have no other relationship I can think of with MSFT or GitHub.