作者：阿迪蒂亚·索尼
2026年1月26日 美国东部时间晚上10:30 文章于11小时前更新
美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯市，2026年1月25日，示威者聚集在亨利·惠普尔主教联邦大楼外，此前一天，一名被确认为亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）的男子在被联邦移民局特工试图拘留时被击毙。路透社/蒂姆·埃文斯 购买授权权限，在新标签页中打开
- 摘要
- 公司
- 科斯拉风险投资公司（Khosla Ventures）的合伙人否认同事对移民和海关执法局（ICE）的辩护
- 这是科技公司CEO罕见地批评特朗普政府
- 超过400名科技员工签署公开信，要求CEO采取行动反对ICE在美国城市的存在
1月26日（路透社）——周六一名美国公民在明尼阿波利斯被移民局特工击毙引发的激烈政治言论，波及到了硅谷。一家有影响力的风投公司的合伙人与其一位为此次枪击事件辩护的同事划清界限。
37岁的亚历克斯·普雷蒂（Alex Pretti）之死，是本月涉及联邦特工进行移民执法的五起枪击事件之一，其中还包括明尼苏达州女子蕾妮·古德（Renee Good）被击毙。本月至少有六名移民在联邦移民拘留中心死亡，这一速度非同寻常。
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普雷蒂遇袭事件在美国政治光谱中引发愤怒，尽管有视频证据与特朗普政府的说法相悖，该政府仍支持其特工。
社交媒体上的来回交锋凸显了美国科技行业核心地带持续存在的政治裂痕，一些高管放弃了该行业长期以来以进步社会价值观著称的立场，转而公开支持特朗普的政策。
在科斯拉风险投资公司合伙人基思·拉博伊斯（Keith Rabois）周末在社交媒体上表示“执法部门没有开枪打死无辜者，非法移民每天都在犯罪”后，该公司创始人维诺德·科斯拉（Vinod Khosla）和合伙人崔伊森（Ethan Choi）均否认了这些言论。该公司以支持OpenAI、DoorDash（DASH.N）等公司而闻名。
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“移民和海关执法局（ICE）人员一定有冰水在血管里流动，才能这样对待其他人，”科斯拉在社交平台X（原推特）上写道，并补充道：“政治固然存在，但人性应超越政治。”
包括谷歌DeepMind AI实验室主任、谷歌（GOOGL.O）首席科学家杰夫·迪恩（Jeff Dean），以及微软（MSFT.O）首席科学官埃里克·霍维茨（Eric Horvitz）在内的几位科技高管，都对普雷蒂表示赞扬。普雷蒂曾是退伍军人事务部医院的重症监护护士。
硅谷的裂痕
亿万富翁埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）带头转向政治保守主义右翼，向特朗普2024年竞选活动捐赠数亿美元，并支持其反移民举措。这导致他与LinkedIn联合创始人、主要民主党捐赠人里德·霍夫曼（Reid Hoffman）等人发生公开冲突。
马斯克尚未就普雷蒂遇袭事件发表评论，而霍夫曼则呼应科斯拉的观点，强调人性应超越政治分歧。
出于对政府报复的警惕，科技高管在过去一年中对影响其业务的政策（包括H-1B签证计划的混乱和美国关税）大多保持沉默。
相反，高管们试图改善与特朗普的关系，一年前向其就职典礼捐赠数百万美元，并支持其制造业推动计划，承诺投入数百亿美元，一些分析师称之为空洞的姿态。
为敦促科技公司CEO打破沉默，谷歌、Meta平台（META.O）、Salesforce（CRM.N）和OpenAI等公司的450多名员工周六签署了一封公开信，要求其高管向白宫施压，要求撤回ICE在美国城市的存在，取消与ICE的所有合同，并公开反对ICE的暴力行为。
“肆意的残忍行为……已经让这些行动声称的移民执法目的荡然无存。他们的目的是恐惧、残忍和压制异议，”信中写道。
员工们指出，特朗普曾表示，在英伟达（NVDA.O）CEO黄仁勋（Jensen Huang）和Salesforce CEO马克·贝尼奥夫（Marc Benioff）劝阻后，他没有部署联邦特工前往旧金山。
路透社记者阿迪蒂亚·索尼（Aditya Soni）报道于班加罗尔；赛扬塔尼·戈什（Sayantani Ghosh）和马修·刘易斯（Matthew Lewis）编辑
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Rift at influential Silicon Valley venture firm shows tech’s divide over ICE shooting
By Aditya Soni
January 26, 2026 10:30 PM UTC Updated 11 hours ago
Demonstrators gather outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, a day after a man identified as Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal immigration agents trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 25, 2026. REUTERS/Tim Evans Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
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- Khosla Ventures partners disavow colleague’s defense of ICE
- Move is a rare criticism of Trump administration by tech CEOs
- More than 400 tech employees sign letter demanding CEOs act against ICE presence in US cities
Jan 26 (Reuters) – Heated political rhetoric over the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by immigration agents in Minneapolis on Saturday spilled into Silicon Valley as partners at an influential venture firm distanced themselves from a colleague who defended the killing.
The death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti was one of five shootings this month involving federal agents conducting immigration enforcement, including the fatal shooting of Minnesota woman Renee Good. At least six immigrants have died this month in federal immigration detention, an unusually rapid pace.
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The Pretti shooting has drawn anger across the U.S. political spectrum as the administration of Republican President Donald Trump backed the agents even as video evidence contradicted its version of events.
The back-and-forth on social media highlights an ongoing political fracture at the heart of the U.S. tech industry where some executives have abandoned the sector’s longstanding reputation for progressive social values to publicly back Trump’s policies.
After Khosla Ventures partner Keith Rabois said, opens new tab on social media on Saturday that law enforcement had not shot an innocent person and that illegal immigrants commit crimes daily, the firm’s founder, Vinod Khosla, and partner Ethan Choi, opens new tab both disavowed the comments. The firm is notable for having backed companies including OpenAI, DoorDash (DASH.O), opens new tab and Instacart.
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“ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) personnel must have ice water running thru their veins to treat other human beings this way,” Khosla said in a post on X, opens new tab. “There is politics but humanity should transcend that,” Khosla added.
Several other tech executives including Jeff Dean, opens new tab, chief scientist at Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google DeepMind AI lab, and Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz, opens new tab praised Pretti, who was an intensive-care nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital.
FRACTURE IN SILICON VALLEY
Billionaire Elon Musk has led the charge to the politically conservative right, with hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign donations to Trump’s 2024 campaign and support for his anti-immigration moves. This has led to public clashes with the likes of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, a major Democratic donor.
Musk has not commented on the Pretti shooting, while Hoffman echoed Khosla’s message that humanity should transcend politics.
Wary of government retaliation, tech executives have spent the past year largely silent on policies impacting their businesses including the chaos surrounding the H-1B visa program and U.S tariffs.
Executives have instead sought to improve ties with Trump, contributing millions to his inauguration a year ago and backing his manufacturing push with tens of billions in pledged spending, which some analysts have called empty posturing.
Urging tech CEOs to break their silence, more than 450 employees from firms such as Google, Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab, Salesforce (CRM.N), opens new tab and OpenAI signed a letter on Saturday, opens new tab urging their top executives to pressure the White House to withdraw ICE from U.S. cities, cancel all contracts with ICE and to speak out publicly against ICE’s violence.
“The wanton brutality … has removed any credibility that these actions are about immigration enforcement. Their goal is terror, cruelty, and suppression of dissent,” they said in the letter.
The workers noted that Trump had said he refrained from deploying federal agents to San Francisco after Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff advised against the action.
Reporting by Aditya Soni in Bengaluru; Editing by Sayantani Ghosh and Matthew Lewis
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