The Trump administration is reportedly implementing a shift in its approach to ongoing deportation operations across the country.
The Trump administration has instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to stop immigration raids and investigations at farms, hotels, and restaurants, according to multiple reports.
The new guidance, sent by senior ICE official Tatum King via email last Thursday, instructs regional ICE leaders to “hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” The New York Times reported. The email was confirmed by a U.S. official who spoke anonymously to the Associated Press. The Department of Homeland Security did not dispute the contents of the email, telling the Times that it “will follow the president’s direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America’s streets.”
President Donald Trump signaled on Thursday that “changes are coming” to immigration enforcement, noting that farmers as well as hotel and leisure businesses had complained about his “very aggressive” crackdown on illegal immigrants. Trump then told reporters at the White House that a new order on immigration enforcement would be issued “pretty soon.”
“Farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers who have worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great, and we’re going to have to do something about that,” he said. “We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back … and you know what’s going to happen, what is happening, they get rid of some of their people … and they end up hiring the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else.”
Trump’s move to stop conducting raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants marks a significant shift in strategy for the Trump administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, along with Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, recently said that the Trump administration would push for a “minimum” of 3,000 ICE arrests per day.
The shift has been criticized by some conservatives who argue that the Trump administration should deport anyone in the country illegally, not just violent criminals and those working in industries other than those exempted in the latest guidelines.
“Under Trump’s new immigration enforcement policy, if you’re an illegal alien, I guess you just have to switch jobs to a restaurant, hotel, farm, or meat packing plant?” said Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said last week, “Hell no. We can’t tolerate this.”
To President Trump,
Agriculture started the whole illegal aliens venture. You must force them to find their labor in the USA and stop relying on illegal aliens. I remember when this started. I noticed it in Yuma, AZ that has a lot of farming work. This is a slippery slope. Get tough on these greedy farmers. They want more profit and this was their way to get it. No problems with paying the illegals next to nothing. No benefits and likely no taxes especially back when this all started.
Then Chavez organized them. That too was an ugly mess.
So you fell for it.
Stop now or you will always have illegal aliens in the USA. They will come and take everything they can get. And where there is one their are many! Hotels, farmers, and any other business that wants to pay less for labor. Understand this will not end if you do not end it now, right now.
Back in the day—
High school kids and other working adults did the labor but they got at least the minimum, wage. Farmers pay illegals much less. I think it is called Piece work and quantity is the objective. Obviously you got told that none of what I said was true. Hum? I don’t agree with your consessions. Farmers will make less profit but illegals will not be in the country.
So sorry you got lead down this path, it is indeed a slippery slope and I am a retired CPA, BSA, Programmer who probably knows more about this particular problem farmers have with illegal aliens versus high school kids, working low skilled adults, etc.. I knew a few of these farmer types and all about the whole issue. So, just changing this for two industries is how all of this really began.
Gotta laught that the black gal who says that blacks are done picking cotton. She knows the agenda as well as I do I am betting. So rethink your decision. Farmers want to avoid payroll costs and this will not change. They just got to you and it will creep ever so slowly into illegals in every industry that draws them to this country. IS IT REALLY NECESSARY OR JUST WHAT LARGE FARMERS, AND OTHER LARGE INDUSTRIES JUST WANT!!!!
So the people are counting on you. Right now high school kids can’t get jobs at burger joints of all varieties because illegal aliens have taken those jobs. Open your eyes, McDonalds has them and once one is in the door then others follow. This is why DNC is so engaged in opening the borders. And you just restarted the whole battle~~~