Trump Reverses Course on ICE Raids at Restaurants and Farms

[BumRushDaShow]

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 administration’s 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 Trump’s 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/

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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]

1. Ice is paying zero attention, Miller is calling the orders not krasnov. nt

[Srkdqltr]

2. So now they send the farm and restaurant workers home?

[riversedge]

6. I wish it were true but I also highly doubt it.

[Srkdqltr]

9. I doubt it too. But now all the out of work white guys who had work taken from them can go do that.

Yeah, right. That's going to happen.

[OldBaldy1701E]

14. Good one!

"They took our JERBS!"

[Irish_Dem]

3. Miller must be really pissed. He was the one who ordered ICE to go into restaurants, fields, etc.

[Blue_Roses]

34. Stephen Miller is so stupid

His obsession with immigration is way over the top. He is not right...

[Irish_Dem]

35. Yes he is a vicious psychopath. Like a serial killer.

[JBTaurus83]

4. Stephen Miller

Will not be happy with this.

[riversedge]

8. Best news yet!!

[Mysterian]

5. How convenient

No raids in red states.

[RainCaster]

7. TACO

Trump
Always
Chickens
Out

[Rebl2]

17. Was just

thinking that.

[Norrrm]

10. So, the law has favoritism.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Now we get to see who's

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]

12. You know how you will know when a lot of immigrants have been deported?

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]

13. If change holds and applied as written, glad the MFer backed off.

[FakeNoose]

15. Obviously Fascist Steve has no plan for getting the low-wage work done

We all know HE'S not doing it, and neither are the MAGA-cultists.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. What's the matter, Dear Leader? Your cronies not getting enough fresh produce?

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]

29. Yep now all the criminals can just go in the fields, restaurants and hotels and they will be safe.

Best place to hide out, while everyone else gets deported.

[OldBaldy1701E]

38. That was my thought as well. (n/t)

[republianmushroom]

18. The little dude, is waffling on farm and restaurants.

Must be seeking low wage help to run Mar-a-Lago.

[twodogsbarking]

19. No source for this but it is plausable if not true. Reagan planned to go wild on immigration

but his friends talked him out of it because they relied so heavily on cheap migrant labor.

[cbabe]

20. How much was the 'donation'?

‘… Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business …’

[Simeon Salus]

21. I'm sure "golf courses" will be added in the signing statement

Always keep your pathetic little sharpie handy!

[ananda]

22. Gee, he just realized that people need to eat.

Wow, what a stable genius.

[sinkingfeeling]

23. What about meat packers and construction workers?

[IronLionZion]

24. Trump should fire Stephen Miller ASAP

That d-bag is pressuring ICE to grab anyone. Unfortunately people who follow the rules are easiest to find.

[Figarosmom]

25. Gee i thought they were all criminals

That added nothing to society!

[samnsara]

26. I guess church services should be held at farms now....

[tulipsandroses]

27. So does this mean that the people that were detained will be released? He will probably backtrack when MAGA pushes back

I don't know how sustainable this is for businesses vs MAGA.

[Ziggysmom]

28. Orange Asshole flip flops more than my old sandals!

[NoMoreRepugs]

30. Agribusiness, Hotel chains, Las Vegas casinos, meat packers must have ponied up $$$$$.

Cuz VonSchitzInPants sure doesn’t give a shit about ANYTHING else.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

31. Trump Always Chickens Out........ again.....

God Bless you, Lawrence O'Donnell for coining that phrase!!!

[DallasNE]

32. The Law Is The Law

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]

33. Probably a group of wealthy land holders and restaurateurs offered to buy his bitcoin scam

$5 million apiece is my guess.

[Mawspam2]

36. Trump must be having trouble finding groundskeepers and maids for his country clubs.

[Justice matters.]

37. The stupid magats the convicted felon made promises to must be...

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.