President Donald Trump has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt raids on illegal aliens in agriculture, hotels, and restaurants and to focus instead on just “criminals.”
The change comes after a post on Truth Social in which he complained that business owners in those industries were losing their workers.
“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 Thursday.
“This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!” he added.
On Saturday, NewsNation confirmed that ICE has been given new directives.
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants, and operating hotels,” Tatum King, a senior ICE official, said in a message to regional leaders, obtained by the New York Times.
King admitted that this change will lead to significantly fewer deportations.
“We acknowledge that by taking this off the table, that we are eliminating a significant # of potential targets,” he wrote.
The report added, “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 ‘noncriminal collaterals,’ a reference to people who are undocumented but who are not known to have committed any crime.”
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that they are following the president’s instructions.
“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,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.
ICE raids in California and other states have prompted a wave of massive riots across the nation.
The post Trump Directs ICE to Stop Raids in Agriculture, Hotel and Restaurant Industries — Focus Only on ‘Criminal’ Aliens appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.