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President Trump had promised changes to protect some migrant workers in a June 12 Truth Social post but his administration has since changed course.
Former CNN correspondent Jim Acosta faced White House backlash after joking about Trump's deceased ex-wife while discussing immigration.
The intensified ICE enforcement after Miller's late May order renewed long-running concerns among farmers about ICE operations targeting their workforce. Nearly half the nation's approximately 2 million farm workers lack legal status, according to the departments of Labor and Agriculture, as do many dairy and meatpacking workers.
Agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been ordered to resume workplace raids at hotels, restaurants and farms after the Trump administration briefly paused such operations. The
The calls by businesses for a reprieve came after the Trump administration reversed a pause on immigration actions at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants.
The Department of Homeland Security reversed course on guidance limiting immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants on Monday, according to a source familiar with the discussions — the latest example of whiplash for an agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Donald Trump’s hardline stance on immigration has caused a split in the White House, pitting the policy’s chief architect against politicians under pressure from farming lobbies. The president’s administration has been ramping up immigration raids to fulfil Mr Trump’s campaign pledge to carry out the “largest deportation programme” in US history.
ICE agents have been told to continue conducting enforcement operations at agricultural businesses despite concerns about effects on the food industry.
White House condemns Jim Acosta after he jokes about Trump’s dead ex-wife: ‘Disgraceful human being’
Acosta argued Trump is a hypocrite on the immigration issue because of his immigrant wives, including his late first wife Ivana.
Jacob Soboroff, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House from Ventura County, California the site of a immigration raid conducted by ICE on Tuesday to show the impact that the continued immigration raids and mass arrests carried out by ICE is set to have on the California and American economy,