{"id":153781,"date":"2025-06-18T03:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-orders-ice-raids-on-farms-and-hotels-after-pausing-them-days-earlier-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T03:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T03:34:55","slug":"trump-orders-ice-raids-on-farms-and-hotels-after-pausing-them-days-earlier-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-orders-ice-raids-on-farms-and-hotels-after-pausing-them-days-earlier-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump orders Ice raids on farms and hotels after pausing them days earlier – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reversal comes days after president posted on Truth Social his \u2018very aggressive\u2019 raids were hurting farmers and hotels
Donald Trump<\/a> has abandoned his brief immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) reprieve for farm and hotel workers, ordering the agency\u2019s raids in those sectors to resume after hardliners crushed a pause that lasted just four days.
The whiplash reversal, first reported by the Washington Post<\/a>, exposes the dysfunction gripping the president\u2019s deportation agenda, where competing advisers battle over policy while Trump lurches between contradictory positions.
\u201cThe president has been incredibly clear,\u201d said Tricia McLaughlin, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assistant secretary, in a statement to the Guardian on Tuesday. \u201cThere will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine Ice\u2019s efforts.\u201d
The flip-flop also follows Trump\u2019s erratic pattern on major policies \u2013 from threatening then retreating on mass global tariffs to wavering on federal spending cuts \u2013 as different factions fight for his ear.
Trump first blinked last Thursday, posting on Truth Social that his \u201cvery aggressive\u201d raids were hurting farmers and hotels. The next day, Ice officials reportedly told staff<\/a> in an internal email to largely lay off raids and arrests in the agricultural, hotel and restaurant industries.
But now, according to the Post, immigration hawks led by the deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller<\/a>, crushed the pause \u2013 after the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, had secured the temporary reprieve amid industry pressure.
By Sunday, Trump had publicly reversed course entirely, ordering agents via a Truth Social post to deliver what he called the \u201csingle largest Mass Deportation Program in History\u201d \u2013 focusing particularly on America\u2019s largest cities, almost all being run by Democrats.
The administration desperately wants workplace raids to hit Miller\u2019s target of 3,000 daily arrests. Daily arrests have been stuck at about 2,000, according to a recent DHS statement.
Single operations at meatpacking plants can net hundreds of detentions.
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Yet Trump\u2019s brief wobble revealed his unease with the economic fallout. Undocumented immigrants make up 4.6% of the US workforce \u2013 more than 7 million people concentrated in agriculture, hospitality and construction, according to the American Immigration Council<\/a>.
Labor groups like United Farm Workers (UFW), which represent a large number of immigrant workers, dismissed the temporary pause on workplace raids in California as never actually being in place.
\u201cAs long as Border Patrol and ICE are allowed to sweep through farm worker communities making chaotic arrests the way they did TODAY, they are still hunting down farm workers,\u201d UFW posted on Instagram on Saturday. \u201cIf President Trump is actually in charge, he needs to prove it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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