TACOs for everyone! Well, at least for the people he thinks voted for him and whose businesses rely on immigrant workers....
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has told immigration officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, the New York Times reported on Friday.
The report cited an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.
"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 official at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in guidance to regional leaders of the department, the Times added.
The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the guidance to the Times and said: “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,”
Reuters:
https://archive.is/Tn1t8#selection-1229.20-1249.225
Maybe this will bring some logic and sanity to this process. Sad that it had to come to ICE agents chasing the strawberry picker through a field before the administration got the message...
