Trump Reverses Course on ICE Raids at Restaurants and Farms
Source: MEDIAite
Jun 13th, 2025, 11:34 pm
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were told on Thursday to halt raids on farms, restaurants, and hotels, according to an internal email obtained by The New York Times.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post stating, Changes are coming in the administrations deportation policy.
Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace, Trump said while promising to get the CRIMINALS OUT.
The new guidance reflects Trumps post, as the Times reported on Friday:
The guidance was sent on Thursday in an email by a senior ICE official, Tatum King, to regional leaders of the ICE department that generally carries out criminal investigations, including work site operations, known as Homeland Security Investigations.
Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels, he wrote in the message.
The email explained that investigations involving human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK. But it said crucially that agents were not to make arrests of non criminal collaterals, a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any other crime.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance.
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump/trump-reverses-course-on-ice-raids-at-restaurants-and-farms/
But the thing is, Stephen Miller, who is the one who is really running ICE, has a "3000 per day" quota and they are literally manufacturing "crimes" of "trafficking" for every innocent immigrant they round up to deport.
lark
(25,823 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,260 posts)riversedge
(79,073 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,260 posts)Yeah, right. That's going to happen.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,889 posts)"They took our JERBS!"
Irish_Dem
(78,972 posts)Blue_Roses
(13,759 posts)His obsession with immigration is way over the top. He is not right...
Irish_Dem
(78,972 posts)JBTaurus83
(826 posts)Will not be happy with this.
riversedge
(79,073 posts)Mysterian
(6,126 posts)No raids in red states.
RainCaster
(13,359 posts)Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
Rebl2
(17,277 posts)thinking that.
Norrrm
(3,790 posts)littlemissmartypants
(31,249 posts)Just flapping lips and who's actually calling the shots.
My money is on Fascist Stevie.
Trump can barely form cogent sentences.
ICE will still be waiting in the wings at immigration appointments. They aren't getting nicer, just lazier.
Time will tell.
Ol Janx Spirit
(572 posts)When the shelves at your grocery store are empty; when your local restaurant closes; when your hotel room is not clean; when your landscaping company doesn't show up one day.
Not when your local crime rate drops....
We need to take over the narrative.
Silent Type
(12,312 posts)FakeNoose
(39,875 posts)We all know HE'S not doing it, and neither are the MAGA-cultists.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,889 posts)I would say that this proves their intentions are not to remove criminals, but to terrorize and obfuscate.
But, it will probably work, so...
Bev54
(13,128 posts)Best place to hide out, while everyone else gets deported.
OldBaldy1701E
(9,889 posts)republianmushroom
(22,122 posts)Must be seeking low wage help to run Mar-a-Lago.
twodogsbarking
(17,360 posts)but his friends talked him out of it because they relied so heavily on cheap migrant labor.
cbabe
(6,079 posts) Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business
Simeon Salus
(1,549 posts)Always keep your pathetic little sharpie handy!
ananda
(34,244 posts)Wow, what a stable genius.
sinkingfeeling
(56,989 posts)IronLionZion
(50,692 posts)That d-bag is pressuring ICE to grab anyone. Unfortunately people who follow the rules are easiest to find.
Figarosmom
(9,497 posts)That added nothing to society!
samnsara
(18,706 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,113 posts)I don't know how sustainable this is for businesses vs MAGA.
Ziggysmom
(3,999 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(11,767 posts)Cuz VonSchitzInPants sure doesnt give a shit about ANYTHING else.
ProudMNDemocrat
(20,514 posts)God Bless you, Lawrence O'Donnell for coining that phrase!!!
DallasNE
(7,944 posts)It doesn't allow for selective enforcement like this. Should not have blocked the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate filibuster, only to be blocked when Trump called for it to be blocked. That would have addressed issues like this. But, no.
wolfie001
(6,834 posts)$5 million apiece is my guess.
Mawspam2
(1,075 posts)Justice matters.
(9,236 posts)fuming about that TACO move... but we all know all he wants is money and power to do anything corrupt anytime that criminal dingbat feels like king of the world.
Heck, he told them all he wanted from them is their vote and that he doesn't care about them... and they still worship his smell... which proves they are even worse dingbats than he is.