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The Independent
7 hours ago
- Politics
- The Independent
Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants
The Trump administration directed immigration officers to pause arrests at farms, restaurants and hotels, after President Donald Trump expressed alarm about the impact of aggressive enforcement, an official said Saturday. The move follows weeks of increased enforcement since Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff and main architect of Trump's immigration policies, said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would target at least 3,000 arrests a day, up from about 650 a day during the first five months of Trump's second term. Tatum King, an official with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations unit, wrote regional leaders on Thursday to halt investigations of the agricultural industry, including meatpackers, restaurants and hotels, according to The New York Times. A U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Associated Press the contents of the directive. The Homeland Security Department did not dispute it. '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 Homeland Security spokesperson, said when asked to confirm the directive. The shift suggests Trump's promise of mass deportations has limits if it threatens industries that rely on workers in the country illegally. Trump posted on his Truth Social site Thursday that he disapproved of how farmers and hotels were being affected. '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. 'In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!' While ICE's presence in Los Angeles has captured public attention and prompted Trump to deploy the California National Guard and Marines, immigration authorities have also been a growing presence at farms and factories across the country. Farm bureaus in California say raids at packinghouses and fields are threatening businesses that supply much of the country's food. Dozens of farmworkers were arrested after uniformed agents fanned out on farms northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura County, which is known for growing strawberries, lemons and avocados. Others are skipping work as fear spreads. ICE made more than 70 arrests Tuesday at a food packaging company in Omaha, Nebraska. The owner of Glenn Valley Foods said the company was enrolled in a voluntary program to verify workers' immigration status and that it was operating at 30% capacity as it scrambled to find replacements. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, has repeatedly said ICE will send officers into communities and workplaces, particularly in 'sanctuary' jurisdictions that limit the agency's access to local jails. Sanctuary cities 'will get exactly what they don't want, more officers in the communities and more officers at the work sites,' Homan said Monday on Fox News Channel. 'We can't arrest them in the jail, we'll arrest them in the community. If we can't arrest them in community, we're going to increase work site enforcement operation. We're going to flood the zone.' ___
The Guardian
11 hours ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Ice reportedly shifting away from immigration raids on farms and hotels
The Trump administration deportation campaign is reportedly shifting its focus away from raids on the agricultural and hospitality sectors after Donald Trump conceded this week that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries. The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations. 'Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,' King wrote in the guidance, according to the outlet. The email explained that investigations involving 'human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK', but added that agents were not to make arrests of 'noncriminal collaterals'. '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 homeland security department spokesperson, said in a statement to the outlet. The guidance is a marked shift in emphasis and comes after a week-long protests in Los Angeles over an Ice raid on a garment factory in the city triggered protests when the national guard, and later the marines, were ordered into the city over the objections of California's governor, Gavin Newsom. Further protests over Ice raids are expected on Saturday. The modification in guidance comes after Trump said on Thursday that changes to protect certain industries were in the works. '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 wrote on Truth Social. 'We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!' he added in the post. Trump campaigned on a platform of mass deportations of undocumented migrants with criminal records or histories, but that expanded in recent weeks as Ice came under White House pressure to increase its daily quota of arrests to 3,000 and the policy appeared to shift to arresting undocumented immigrants with no criminal records. That potentially affected tens of thousands of workers embedded in the agriculture, construction and hospitality sectors and raised the politically indigestible specter of family separations. The elevated arrest targets were publicly promoted by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, who reportedly told Ice officials in late May they needed to 'just go out there and arrest illegal aliens'. In the new Ice guidance, later confirmed by the Wall Street Journal, King appeared to acknowledge that the Miller's quota targets would be affected. 'We acknowledge that by taking this off the table, that we are eliminating a significant # of potential targets,' he wrote. Trump was reportedly warned by his agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, that farmers – a key Republican-supporting constituency – were concerned that Ice enforcement would affect their businesses. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that businesses were being hurt because sweeps of non-criminal foreign workers were driving changes in shopping behavior. The outlet cited a 3% drop in Coca-Cola's sales volume over the first three months of the year, in part because of a pullback by Hispanic shoppers. Colgate-Palmolive, Modelo brewer Constellation Brands, and restaurant chains including Wingstop and El Pollo Loco have also said that decreased spending by Hispanic consumers had hurt sales. 'We have seen a huge decline in traffic,' Régis Schultz, CEO of JD Sports, the parent company of the Hispanic-targeting Shoe Palace retail chain, told analysts in May. 'You can see definitively the impact' of the immigration policy, he added.
Yahoo
16 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
TACO Trump Caves on Own Immigration Plan in Stunning About-Face
At the end of a long week dominated by the Trump administration's anti-immigration crackdown—and nationwide protests mounted in response to targeted Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids—the president has suddenly reversed course. In a truly stunning about-face, The New York Times reports that Trump has instructed ICE officials to pause any raids on the agriculture and hospitality industries. It's a move that suggests the president's hardline stance was costing him support in key industries, and with constituents he does not want to lose. According to a report from the Economic Research Service, 42 percent of crop farmworkers in the U.S. hold no work authorization, firmly placing the industry in the Trump administration's crosshairs. In addition, of the 15 million people in the U.S. who work in the travel industry, one third are immigrants, and hotels have long struggled to find Americans willing to fill hospitality positions. As a result, travel industry lobby groups have called on Congress to implement broader pathways for legal immigration. A Trump himself acknowledged in a Truth Social post earlier this week, mass deportations of workers across industries including agriculture and hospitality leave many businesses without valued employees. In his post, Trump wrote, '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 finished his missive with a vague, 'Changes are coming!' Now, those changes are here—and the message is clear: Trump's commitment to his own anti-immigration agenda cannot withstand pressure from his supporters to stop the damage being done to their bottom line. Instructions regarding ICE's change in enforcement rules were emailed by senior ICE official Tatum King to regional ICE department heads on Thursday. It read, 'Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels.' Investigations of human trafficking, drug smuggling, and money laundering in those industries were still permitted, but King emphasized that agents were not allowed to arrest 'non-criminal collaterals,' a term that refers to undocumented immigrants who are not suspected of having committed a crime. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the policy shift to the Times, telling the paper, '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.' It is unclear how the change will affect senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller's plan for ICE to perform a minimum of 3,000 arrests per day. In recent weeks, ICE has conducted raids at restaurants, factories, and stores across the country, including raids at Home Depot stores across Southern California. King acknowledged that the change in policy would impair the agency's ability to implement Miller's vision, writing, 'We acknowledge that by taking this off the table, that we are eliminating a significant # of potential targets.'
New York Times
a day ago
- Business
- New York Times
Trump Shifts Deportation Focus, Pausing Raids on Farms, Hotels and Eateries
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 'non-criminal collaterals,' a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any other crime. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Citizen
23-05-2025
- Sport
- The Citizen
Roodepoort parkrun sees strong turnout
The Roodepoort parkrun was once again buzzing with enthusiasm on Saturday, May 18, as 444 runners and walkers gathered, awaiting the run director's signal to start the 5km run. This was event number 607 and saw 29 volunteers facilitating the event by directing participants, scanning barcodes and providing support and encouragement. The event drew an amazing 31 first-time runners, and as always, a whole host of participants celebrated the coveted parkrun milestones, including Tatum King, who completed her 10th; Vincent Joel and Helen Mittwoch with their 100th; and Sadiq Gordon with his 150th run. Desmond Campbell was also honoured on the honours board for his 200th parkrun alongside Gielie Nel with 300, and John Carstens closed off the board with 350. Also read: Easter fun at parkrun According to Pascal Simba, the ambassador for Roodepoort parkrun, a new initiative has been introduced by Discovery Vitality and the Department of Sports, Arts, and Culture called Give2move, which kicked off on May 10 in celebration of World Move for Health Day. Watch video here: 'The aim is to collect 100 000 pairs of shoes in all sizes, which will be donated to those who need them the most. 'Parkrunners are encouraged to donate old or new shoes of any size every Saturday, and that will be appreciated,' he said. Pascal would also like to remind the community that the parkrun takes place every Saturday at 08:00 at Len Rutter Park in Florida Park. The event is free and is a two-lap course. All you have to do is register on print out your barcode, and you are ready to become part of the parkrun community. At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
