President Trump said in a Social media publication on Thursday It is ready to exempt agricultural industries and hotels from the country’s immigration campaign. This surprising step came after the executive managers in both industries complained of Trump of the long -trusted migrant workers in immigration raids and struggled to replace them.
“Our farmers and people in the hotel and entertainment have said that our very aggressive policy on immigration takes workers who suffer from a very long time, as it is almost impossible to replace it,” Trump wrote.
Trump added: “In many cases, criminals allowed our country to enter the Piden policy very stupid, who are applying for these jobs,” Trump added. “This is not good. We must protect our farms, but removing criminals from the United States of America. The changes are coming!”
the The New York Times mentioned The next day, a senior immigration and customs official requested a temporary stoppage in immigration raids for agricultural companies, meat filling factories, restaurants and hotels.
The ICE official also advised the chief agent to stop arresting unknown documents that they committed a crime. Instead, the agents were informed of investigation and detention people who have no documents with criminal backgrounds, According to the New York Times.
In response to a question from NBC News regarding Trump’s stop, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Internal Security did not ignore Trichia McLeulin. “We will follow the direction of the president and continue to work for the worst of the worst illegal foreigners than the streets of America,” McLeulin said in a statement.
Migration crossroads
The change that is likely to be important in the administration’s approach to migration comes as Trump faces a political crossroads. Immigration raids in Los Angeles sparked days of violent protests there and helped fuel Trump’s fighting protests throughout the country on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly promised his supporters during the 2024 campaign that he would deport a million people per year, the largest mass deportation in the history of the United States.
To achieve this goal, White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller Student last month The ice arrested at least 3000 people who are not documented a day.
Three former NBC News officials told NBC News that ICE officials will have to increase the largest raids of workplaces worldwide to achieve these goals. These sites include farms, meat filling, hotels and restaurants-industries that Trump seems to have forgiven.
A former ice official said only the raids on “construction, dairy [and] The former official said that the meat processing facilities would lead to carpet carpet facilities “to a large number of arrests that Miller requested.
During the 2024 campaign, since he took office, Trump rejected warnings from experts that such a wide -ranging deportation would lead to a lack of workers in the industries he is now disrupting.
But the groups that support the Trump campaign expect it to maintain his promise.
“They must follow them,” said Era Mouman, a US migration spokesperson, a group that supports a campaign against illegal workers. “I don’t think there will be a large group of the country that will be upset if they represent these companies, if they employ illegal immigrants and the cost is transferred to everyone. “
Targeting
For years, the slaughterhouse was one of the well -known in this field based on the newly arrived migrant work, partly due to the difficult and dangerous nature of the work. Many slaughterhouses are located in red states spread throughout the Middle West and southeast. In Texas alone there are approximately 500 meat and food supply factories, according to the data of the US Department of Agriculture.
Earlier this week, ICE clients raided a local ownership in Omaha, Nebraska, and arrested at least 80 undemptomable workers, according to local officials. He said that the company is striving to work within the law, that it cooperates with the agents and that it “is not accused of any crime.”
But so far large slaughterhouses have not been constantly targeted by ice throughout the country.
Since Trump took office in Jan It has largely targeted the smaller companies Like a roof in Bellingham, Washington, a Mexican Restaurant in Harlengen, Texas, A small equipment manufacturer in South Dakota. It was one of the largest workplace raids so far – which resulted in more than 100 arrests – Building site in TalhaasiIt is supervised by a private owned construction company in Florida.
Larry Stein, a recruitment lawyer who represents some of the largest meat filling factories in the southeast of the United States, says its clients are “terrified” from a possible raid and actively doing their employees ’papers.
A few construction industry raids
Trump did not mention an exemption for the construction industry, which also employs large numbers of migrant workers. Industry officials said that the construction industry has so far witnessed relatively few ice raids.
Brian Toulil, Vice President of General Affairs of the Contractors in America, said that until now, he is only aware of the intermittent reports of the construction site raids, like one in Talhaasi on May 29. Where more than 100 not documented people were held.
The Contractors Association continues to prepare members for how to respond if the enforcement procedures increase. “Compliance information has now been republished after it has become more realistic,” said Tormel.
Tormel said he was still confident that the president is sensitive to the needs of the building industry, which has grown the workforce that has lasted more severe decades in recent years. It is one of the reasons Building costs rise, He said, which in turn led to the spending of construction General decrease on an annual basis for the first time since 2019.
“Between the high workers and the costs of the higher materials, it puts the developers on the margin because the projects are no longer a pencil,” said Tormel.
The members of the Continuous Association still hope that the administration’s promises to redirect more workforce towards professional skills will turn into a federal spending to do so.
Turmeil predicted that workers ’lack will continue and may get worse if the immigration campaign continues. He added that one of the ways that the administration can help treat it, will create ways to legally enter building workers.
“Even if we get all the funding that we wanted, we still need to find some temporary legal paths for people to attend and work in construction.”
Democrats say that Trump’s campaign for millions of collective deportation is reaching economic facts. John Sandwig, who held the position of ICE director during the Obama administration, said that to keep 3000 arrests in the daily session, the Trump administration will have to shake the factories owned by large companies. “There is no doubt that some of the wealth 500 will harm,” he said.
