Microsoft staff demand firm ends Border Patrol contract

Source: BBC



Dave Lee North America technology reporter

20 June 2018
A letter signed by more than 100 Microsoft employees has called on it to stop working with the US Border Patrol.

The call comes as the Trump administration faces intense criticism over the separation of children from their families at the Mexican border.

The letter, posted on an internal message board and published by the New York Times, said the employees "refuse to be complicit”.

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"I am appalled at the abhorrent policy of separating immigrant children from their families," he wrote.
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Image caption Microsoft boss Satya Nadella is being put under pressure by his rank-and-file to end its work with US Border Patrol