ICE resumes raids on farms, hotels and restaurants after brief pause pushed by AG Secretary Rollins

Jennie Taer
The New York Post
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:50 UTC

ICE raids illegal migrants food farm workers

The Trump administration is backing away from its earlier instructions to halt immigration raids at farms, hotels and restaurants, according to reports.

Homeland Security officials instructed agency leadership in a call Monday to resume raids at those businesses — which have higher proportions of illegal migrants in their workforce — following the days-long pause, according to the Washington Post and CNN.

President Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday that his mass deportation campaign was taking its toll on the agricultural and hospitality industries.

Comment: Apparently AG secretary Rollins pressured Trump to exempt illegal farm and food workers from ICE raids:

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This is exactly what I was saying. Trump needs to replace Sec. Rollins. She is not Maga and is the one behind Trump stopping enforcement of deporting illegal aliens that are farmers. That has now extended to hotels and restaurants. Rollins is for Big AG, not the small or middle farmer. These agricultural visas are unlimited. It's not fair and it financially hurts employers that hire employees legally. @karolineleavitt @realDonaldTrump I didn't vote for this. Honor your campaign, promise president Trump.

That same day, ICE agents across the country received an order to "please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels," according to the New York Times.

"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.

"This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming," he said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisors were alerted to a possible reversal of the pause on Sunday after learning the White House didn't support the effort, a source told the Washington Post.

A major divide has reportedly formed within the Trump administration over the worksite raids.

"Severe disruptions to our food supply would harm Americans," wrote Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on X Sunday. "It took us decades to get into this mess and we are prioritizing deportations in a way that will get us out."

All the while, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has further pushed ICE to meet the 3,000 daily arrest quota the administration has set.

"[W]e must dramatically intensify arrest and removal operations nationwide," she wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. "This is a nonnegotiable national priority."

ICE agents will be judged "every day by how many arrests you, your teammates and your office are able to effectuate," she wrote, adding, "Failure is not an option."

She also said worksite sweeps are "a cornerstone" of the mass deportation push, adding, "There will be no safe spaces for industries who harbor violent criminals or purposely try to undermine ICE's efforts."

Comment: All the handwringing over 'who will pick our veggies', and 'American workers are lazy' turn out not to be so true. Here is what happened after the Glen Valley Food sweep (pictured above) removed illegal migrants:

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My kid got in some legal trouble 18-21 so he entered the job market with felonies which of course leads you to construction or food service.

Even at his worst drug/crime point he was always a hard worker but couldn't get a job because many job sites and kitchens are run entirely in Spanish and many pay cash and under market rate.

After rehab he also couldn't work in a lot of the workplace is dominated by illegals because most of them doubled as a meth/fentanyl distribution mechanism which is not the best for a recovering addict.

Pull the illegals out of the equation and there are lots of hard-working people who either by no skill or past mistakes need & will happily take those jobs.

Jennie Taer

Jennie Taer is a Texas reporter at the New York Post. Jennie focuses on the US-Mexico border, where she's reported from countless times. Jennie began with The Post in March 2024 as the sole reporter to witness a massive riot involving 300 migrants, who were seen in a video that went hugely viral attacking soldiers and rushing the border wall. She regularly appears on Fox News, Newsmax, Sky News and other news channels to discuss immigration. Follow her on X

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TBoris · 2025-06-18T12:43:05Z

''How the ICE Raids and Crackdowns on Anti-Genocide Speech Are A Threat to All American Workers' [Link]

While militarized ICE agents sweeping into communities across the country might appease some of Trump’s MAGA supporters

That made them less exploitable. They were free to change jobs and unionize.

Guest workers, on the other hand, are loved by Trump and many employers because they are basically indentured servants .

H2-A guest workers also faced a major setback in their fight to organize last year when a District Court Judge issued an injunction in August that blocked them from unionizing in 17 states .

In another alarming development, immigrant workers, including green card holders and work visa holders, have faced arrest, detention, revocation of status and deportation with a complete lack of due process .

Hundreds of other higher education student workers around the country from a wide range of unions have had their visas revoked for reasons ranging from the exercise of free speech to being from countries now being considered for new travel bans.

At the same time, the Trump administration is gutting the Department of Labor that was already woefully understaffed (750 investigators overseeing fair labor standards at 11 million workplaces) and unserious about penalties anyways (maximum penalty per child laborer is $15,000). It has been a bipartisan effort to continually torch it with Trump now acting as an accelerant.

JohnDukes · 2025-06-18T14:41:07Z

The deportations must be increased to 10,000 per day if the administration is going to stop the demographic and cultural change being forced on the US by globalist-aligned NeoCons and Dems. Their “due process” is an immigration judge ordering their removal, no one is being removed without due process, everyone being removed received due process otherwise they would be an unknown roaming the country. The storyline that people are being removed without due process is a propaganda myth concocted in order to push a narrative meant to slow down the removals because the Dems and giant corporations use these people as cheap labor and fodder for growing the machine of state.

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