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The abrupt pivot on an issue at the heart of Mr. Trump’s presidency suggested his broad immigration crackdown was hurting industries and constituencies he does not want to lose.

The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.

The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.

The new guidance comes after protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s immigration raids, including at farms and businesses. It also came as Mr. Trump made a rare concession this week that his crackdown was hurting American farmers and hospitality businesses.

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 “noncriminal collaterals,” a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any crime.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance.

“We 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,” Tricia McLaughlin, a department spokeswoman, said in a statement.

For months, Mr. Trump and his aides have said they would target all immigrants without legal status in the United States to make good on his campaign promise for mass deportations. While the administration came into office saying it would initially target undocumented immigrants with criminal records, it has in recent weeks expanded to raiding work sites and sweeping up other undocumented immigrants broadly.

On Thursday, Mr. Trump acknowledged that the crackdown might be alienating industries he wanted to keep on his side.

“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,” he said on social media.

Mr. Trump posted after Brooke Rollins, the secretary of agriculture, informed him of farmers who were concerned about the ICE enforcement affecting their businesses, according to a White House official and a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Trump has for decades owned luxury hotels, an industry with a strong immigrant labor force.

A former Trump administration official added that throughout his first term, Mr. Trump often heard concerns from some Republicans from rural states about how the immigration crackdown would hurt the agricultural industry.

The decision to scale back operations at work sites comes at a crucial time, and the implications of the guidance are still to be determined on the ground. The guidance did not appear to rule out raids at work sites in other industries, like the one at a garment factory in Los Angeles that sparked the protests.

In recent weeks, Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, has publicly pushed for a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day.

Following Mr. Miller’s comments, arrests shot up to over 2,000 a day last week, and in recent days and weeks, ICE officials have conducted operations at restaurants, factories and business across the country.

One Department of Homeland Security official with knowledge of the email said that agents had felt the pressure for more arrests and that the guidance took them by surprise. Agents were still digesting the long-term implications without a direct signal from the White House about how to carry out the new guidance, the official said.

Mr. King seemed to acknowledge that the new guidance would hurt the quest for higher numbers of arrests.

“We acknowledge that by taking this off the table, that we are eliminating a significant # of potential targets,” he wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html

Did these people not enter the country "illegally" too? You see, many of us have tried to explain that you can't just go off half cocked and attack every immigrant who entered this country illegally without paying heavy consequences. That millions of workers can not just be replaced by American citizens that have no desire to do these jobs. And even if they did it would take a huge increase in pay which would directly impact the prices on us all. A scorched earth approach to this entire situation was never going to work.

But when you rile up your supporters by saying things like, "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.", you put a label on an entire nation of immigrants. I mean other than some whom he assumes are good people.

Did it somehow become that those working in the in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurant industries suddenly become the one's he claims he "assumes are good people" and everyone in every other industry are those who are, "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."?

It wouldn't surprise me if this list of industries not to pursue expands to the construction industry. It is an industry already half a million people short of being able to fill their job openings.

And maybe we should discuss the inclusion of the Hotel and leisure industries being on that list. It's the industries trump has the biggest investments in and employees the most people. I understand how not wishing to cripple our food supplies and supply chain in regards to food is essential. Staying at hotels at a golf course which is leisure however is not.

Can we say conflict of interest boys and girls?

This is what happens when you don't think things out!

No immigration changes under way for farm, hospitality workers, Washington Post reports
Reuters
Fri, June 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM EDT3 min read



U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Joint Base Andrews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -There are no policy changes under way to exempt farm, hotel and other leisure workers from Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, the Washington Post reported on Friday, a day after the U.S. president vowed to issue an order for such workers.

Trump's comments on Thursday were aimed at soothing industry leaders, but there will be no changes to current deportations, according to the report, which cited three people with knowledge of the administration’s immigration policies.

Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the report, which comes amid demonstrations protesting Trump's immigration raids.


Trump's border czar Tom Homan told the Washington Post that he had not discussed any changes for such workers with Trump and has not been involved in any policy plans to address them.

Farm and hotel industries rely heavily on migrant labor, and farmers were strong supporters of Trump's 2024 re-election bid.

While Trump is carrying out his campaign promise to deport immigrants in the country illegally, protesters and some Trump supporters have questioned the targeting of those who are not convicted criminals, including in places of employment.

On Thursday, Trump acknowledged the impact of his immigration policies on some sectors and said he would issue a related order "soon," giving no details.

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"Our farmers are being hurt badly and we're going to have to do something about that... We're going to have an order on that pretty soon," he said at the White House.

He added that it would also address the hotels sector, which would include the Trump Organization, Trump's private business that has said it is being run by his adult sons.

"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," he wrote on his social media platform before his Thursday remarks. "Changes are coming!"

U.S. farm industry groups have long sought to be spared from mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain dependent on immigrants, and welcomed his comments.



Major hotel companies and casino operators did not return Reuters' requests for comment.



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Trump did not say what steps he would order or when they would come.

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told CNBC on Thursday that Trump was reviewing all possibilities but that Congress would also have to act, pointing to the H-2A visa program that allows employers to hire temporary or seasonal labor.

An immigration raid of an Omaha, Nebraska, meat-packing plant on Tuesday forced the company to operate with reduced staffing and caused concern among traders and analysts about how such raids could disrupt U.S. food production.


The United Farm Workers and California's Democratic Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff this week called for a stop to immigration enforcement actions targeting farmworkers after media reports of Tuesday raids at California farms.

In April, Trump suggested farmers could petition to keep some workers if the migrants left the country and then returned with legal status.

As the article stated, this is more for optics over anything that was targeted.


At this point ICE is looking for identified targets. They aren't just driving down the street looking for random Mexican restaurants or farms to see who they might be able to round up. The problem is the optics fed by disinformation is that is what they are doing. The disinformation isn't necessarily fed or created by the media. Lot's is just word on the street. People are trying to get skinny and don't show up for work which makes it hard for the various establishments to operate.

As with some of you, I am sympathetic to the plight of some of these people. The majority of those people, but there are legal means for those individuals. The problem is that in the old days those people entered on work visas for several months, then returned home. Now they don't. They stay, and that is a problem. We have to get a grip on that. How that "grip" manifests is yet to be determined. I think it will be somewhere between simply deporting a mass amount of people and ignoring the problem.

In the mean time, we have to get the violent criminals and get them out, and there are a large number of those folks. We have to do that now in an expedited manner. We can't wait for all sides to massage out some sort of reform.

So you know this as actual facts or are you just spewing whatt you hope is true.? As I’ve stated before, anyone that believes a word out of trumps pie hole is a damn fool.

Do you really believe that? Here in Nashville just a few weeks ago they pulled over hundreds of people in a small area known to have a high level of illegal immigrants in a matter of hours. Most with no criminal record. And this has been a common theme across the country. I mean people can argue amongst themselves about whether all illegal immigrants should be removed or not. But to suggest these raids are targeted towards certain individuals based on them being criminals is preposterous at best. I agree that's how it started out but The White House insisted the numbers increase and so they found a way to make that happen. That way was to target them all and not target only the criminals.


And if that was their intended goal and what they were doing that would be fine. But it's not.