A small protest at Dreamforce on Wednesday urged attendees to tell event organizer Salesforce to drop its contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
A half-dozen people dressed in trench coats, some with fake noses and “Snatchforce” buttons, handed out “missing person” flyers on Mission Street just outside the convention entrance, with photos of individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They sought to highlight the connection between the tech company’s products, which includes a contract to power some of the technology behind border logistics, and the Trump administration’s controversial deportations and arrests of suspected illegal residents.
“What we wanted to do is really just show the human impact of these policies and the technology that enables them,” said Julia Neusner, a human rights lawyer and founder of nonprofit Human Security Initiative who was part of the protest…