Sunday, June 15, 2025

Hotel Operator Pauses ICE Raids on Hotels

The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants ...

Posted by OCUser at 11:33 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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After complaints from farm and hotel owners, President Trump says he may halt ICE raids in those industries. If he does, experts say he will struggle to meet his goal of 3,000 detentions a day.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Jun 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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Because the deportations and raids were never about actually enforcing immigration law.

They were about using immigrants as a scapegoat to build state power and shred constitutional rights.

In the end, immigrants will still be here, they'll just be further pushed into 2nd class citizen status while our rights will have evaporated in the name of immigration enforcement.

Congrats, MAGA morons, you fell for a well described tactic to push fascism into the open. Idiots.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-14 12:49 PM

This is what I think Trump's real long term goal is, to establish a subclass of low-paid workers, who will accept jobs without benefits and with poor working conditions, so that his corporate supporters, particularly in the agriculture and leisure industries, can increase their profits.

And Trump can then hold over their heads that if they complain about their wages or their working conditions, he'll simply revoke their 'legal status' and deport them.

OCU

#2 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-06-14 01:14 PM

Another view ...

Inside Trump's backtrack on immigration
www.axios.com

... For months, Trump administration officials have been adamant about targeting all the millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, regardless of their work or taxpaying status.

- - - But now Trump is making a huge exception: those working at hotels, farms, meatpacking plants and restaurants.

Why it matters: He's bowing to pressure from businesses that have been warning of economic devastation -- and is opening the door for potentially millions of workers who are here illegally to stay after all. ...

The intrigue: White House insiders insist this isn't a case of Trump flip-flopping " and that he still supports the hard line on immigration enforcement that Miller and Noem have pushed.

- - - But it's clear that the economic calamity that could result from mass deportations of unauthorized workers who do labor-intensive jobs most Americans won't, will lead to some changes in Trump's immigration plan. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-15 12:27 PM

So, magically, illegal immigrants in the US have become OK in Pres trump's view?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-15 12:29 PM

So it's okay that car washes and lawncare services and mom & pop restaurants can go without employees but the big agribusinesses or the luxury hotels and resorts, they need to remain fully staffed. Wait until they start to raid nursing homes and daycare centers, or picking up the janitorial staffs at schools and hospitals, then the people will see who Trump and Stephen Miller really care about.

OCU

#5 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-06-15 02:45 PM

Wait until they start to raid nursing homes and daycare centers, or picking up the janitorial staffs at schools and hospitals, then the people will see who Trump and Stephen Miller really care about.

I read that they are going to children's playgrounds and arresting all the undocumented nannies they find.

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-06-15 03:03 PM

PS They are also targetting food truck workers.

#7 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-06-15 03:06 PM

So, magically, illegal immigrants in the US have become OK in Pres trump's view?
#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-15 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Okay is a stretch.

"They're less bad than inflation."

It's not like they're going to arrest the employers, those are Trump voters.

#8 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-06-15 04:27 PM

Just about harassment.

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-06-16 03:18 AM

Pausing raids on ag and hospitality businesses is just going to draw more immigrants to those industries and the states in which they reside. Hey Iowa, Nebraska! Are you ready for a big influx of migrants?

#10 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-06-16 06:22 AM

this is why having "loose" application of immigration laws and sanctuary cities is bad. It keeps these people in a limbo of being a sub class working for slave wages. The left needs to move away from supporting flaunting immigration laws, and the right needs a sensible and humane way of enforcing them and be willing to negotiate to account for the realities in place. As we stand now though, we are using people as political footballs and expecting them to accept under the table slave wages.

#11 | Posted by kwrx25 at 2025-06-16 09:34 AM

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