Impact of immigration policy
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Immigration raids could 'devastate' construction in the United States, says industry leader
Industries that rely on workers who are in the country without legal status, like agriculture, restaurants and construction, are taking notice.
The Pew Research Center said, as of 2017, 12% of workers in the construction industry were immigrants in the country with authorization. In 2021, the Center for American Progress estimated that among construction laborers, 23% don't have legal status.
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He’s sundowning again.
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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...
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Rotten tomatoes.
Tony DiMare’s family owns 4,000 acres of tomato farms across Florida and California. Sadly, his Florida crops are not looking good — mowed over and left to rot, like tomato vines across the state.
But it’s not growing conditions that are the problem. It’s economic ones.
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The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of immigrants say they are feeling betrayed after federal agents recently detained the woman in California while she interviewed for permanent US residency – and began working to expel her from the country.
“We feel totally blindsided,” Cynthia Olivera’s husband – US citizen and self-identified Trump voter Francisco Olivera – told the California news station KGTV. “I want my vote back.”
Her petition on change-dot-org:
The Issue
We, the undersigned, call on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to immediately release Cynthia Olivera, a Canadian citizen wrongfully detained during her green card interview. Cynthia, who moved to the U.S. at the age of 10 and has lived there for 35 years, has committed no crime other than loving and contributing to the country she calls home.
On June 13, 2025, Cynthia arrived at her green card interview in good faith, only to be detained by ICE officers mid-interview, despite her long history as a law-abiding resident, mother of three, and dedicated worker. Her case highlights a fundamental issue with the current U.S. immigration system: punishing people who have deep ties to the U.S. rather than supporting those who want to follow the legal process.
Despite offering to pay for her own flight back to Canada and waive her rights to a bond hearing, she remains locked up at an ICE detention facility in El Paso, Texas. Her family — including her U.S. citizen husband — are devastated, and taxpayers are forced to cover the costly expenses of her detention, which amount to $152 a day.
Cynthia’s case is not just about immigration laws; it’s about human rights, fairness, and compassion. She has complied with the process, yet she continues to be punished. We urge the Canadian government to intervene and call on ICE to expedite her release, ensuring that her family can be reunited without further delay or unnecessary suffering.
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Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
@wtg said in Impact of immigration policy:
Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Too late for thousands of people.
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@Nina said in Impact of immigration policy:
I expect many Trump voters are rapidly entering the FAFO phase
I suspect many voted for Trump to sock it to the immigrants (and pwn the libs); some may qualify that to "illegal/undocumented" immigrants, but many are probably just as happy to get rid of all immigrants. Immigration handling is probably still the aspect of Trump's administration that gets the highest approval ratings.
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When the UK Brexited Europe there was concern about who would pick our fruit crops, as its far too hard work for us Brits to want to do. Government got around it somehow.
This year, the driest sunniest hottest half-year for over 100 years, means our crops are being harvested early but yields are down by 30-40%.
And yet as hosepipe bans are considered for some areas, this is Aysgarth in Yorkshire over the weekend:
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Jermaine Thomas, whose very citizenship was once the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case a decade ago, was forcibly removed from the United States last week and deported to Jamaica-a nation he had never seen-leaving him unequivocally stateless. Thomas, born on a U.S. Army base in Germany to a U.S. citizen father who served nearly two decades in the military, now faces a desolate future without a recognized nationality.
"I'm looking out the window on the plane, and I'm hoping the plane crashes and I die," Thomas confided to The Chronicle from a hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, to his despair. He was reportedly shackled at his wrists and ankles during the journey to this unfamiliar land.
According to court documents, Thomas is not a citizen of Germany, where he was born in 1986, nor of the United States, despite his father's extensive service. He also holds no citizenship in Jamaica, his father's birth country.
Thomas's perplexing status stems from his birth abroad to a military parent, a legal grey area that led to his case reaching the nation's highest court. The complexities of his origins ultimately led to his expulsion from the country he had known mainly, despite his father's sacrifice.
