Trump Admin Reverses Course On Immigration Raids At Farms, Hotels: Report

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Jun 17, 2025 - 12:28

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Trump Admin Reverses Course On Immigration Raids At Farms, Hotels: Report

The Trump administration is reversing course, reportedly telling agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) they should continue to conduct immigration raids on farms, in hotels, and in restaurants.

This past Thursday, the administration reportedly instructed ICE to halt immigration raids on such businesses. The guidance followed a warning from the Department of Agriculture that aggressive deportations in rural areas could destabilize the food supply.

“There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine ICE’s efforts,” Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said on a call Monday, The Washington Post reported. “Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to safeguard public safety, national security and economic stability.”

Officials from ICE reportedly led the call, informing agency leaders from 30 field offices across the nation that immigration raids at those workplaces would resume.

Last week, President Donald Trump said there would be a forthcoming policy change regarding deportations at farms, hotels, and leisure businesses. He said he wanted his administration to use “common sense” and not focus on deporting “good workers” who have been here for decades.

“Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers who have worked for them for 20 years. They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great, and we’re going to have to do something about that. We can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back,” the president said. “You know what’s going to happen — what is happening, they get rid of some of their people … and they end up hiring the criminals that have come in, the murderers from prisons and everything else.”

Before the apparent reversal, the announcement to slow down such raids generated pushback from some Trump supporters, arguing that the move was de facto amnesty and not what they voted for.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) – who’s disagreed with Trump over a number of issues – had criticized the policy shift, writing, “Under Trump’s new immigration enforcement policy, if you’re an illegal alien, I guess you just have to switch jobs to a restaurant, hotel, farm, or meat packing plant?”

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