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'Widespread burnout': ICE agents express 'frustration' over Trump's 'unrealistic' demands

The Trump administration, with the help of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is targeting a long list of federal government agencies for mass layoffs — from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to the National Weather Service (NWS) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA). And Trump has contemplated eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) altogether — an idea that drew scathing criticism when areas of Central Texas were rocked by deadly floods over the 4th of July Weekend.

But one agency that clearly isn't being defunded is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" contains $75 billion set aside for ICE during a four-year period.

While other agencies are being aggressively downsized, ICE is hiring. But according to an article from The Independent published on August 26, ICE is an incredibly stressful work environment during Trump's second presidency — and agents are "grappling with widespread burnout and frustration."

"Bolstered by record funding and new latitude for raids," Independent reporters Ted Hesson, Tim Reid and Nicole Jeanine Johnson explain, "staff are contending with long hours and growing public outrage over arrests. Two current and nine former ICE officials have said agents are struggling to keep pace with the (Trump) administration's aggressive enforcement agenda. While all interviewed officials backed immigration enforcement in principle, they criticized the Trump Administration's push for high daily arrest quotas."

The reporters add, "These have led to the detention of thousands with no criminal record, long-term green card holders, legal visa holders, and even some U.S. citizens. Most current and former ICE officials requested anonymity, fearing retaliation."

The quotas are reportedly being demanded by White House senior adviser Stephen Miller.

"Americans have been inundated with images on social media of often-masked agents in tactical gear handcuffing people on neighborhood streets, at worksites, outside schools, churches, and courthouses, and in their driveways," Hesson, Reid and Johnson report. "Videos of some arrests have gone viral, fueling public anger over the tactics. Under Trump, average daily arrests by the 21,000-strong agency have soared, up over 250 per cent in June compared to a year earlier, although daily arrest rates dropped in July…. Another stress factor for more senior officials is the perpetual threat of being removed for failure to produce arrests, underscored by multiple changes of leadership at ICE since Trump took office in January, five of the ICE officials said…. At the center of the complaints, the current and former ICE officials said, was the demand by the White House for ICE to sharply increase immigration arrest numbers to about 3000 a day — 10 times the daily arrest rate last year under Trump's Democratic predecessor, former President Joe Biden."

An ICE agent, quoted anonymously, told The Independent, "The demands they placed on us were unrealistic. It was not done in a safe manner or the manner to make us most successful."

Read The Independent's full article at this link.

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Trump-voting Latinos turn on TX GOP

Washington Post writer Sabrina Rodriguez reports Latinos may not be the Republican lock-in the party is expecting from new gerrymandered Texas maps.

“Am I going to say it’s just Republicans from now on? No,” said Yzeña Cuellar, who lives near the U.S. southern border. “I’m not going to be a shut door. I’m going to be open to both sides.”

Republican leaders believe five new congressional districts that Trump wants created in Texas will be reliably GOP, but that’s only if the party continues to keep the new Latino voters they drew in the last election, and if they expand their reach further.

The 28th Congressional District, which is currently held by a Democrat, will be 90 percent Hispanic under new GOP proposed maps. The Post reports Republican leaders plan to fold in voters who went for Trump in nearby Hidalgo County in the last election. However, that same county also voted for Democratic U.S. House and Senate candidates and other Democrats down the ballot.

And while Republicans did open new territory along the border, sources speaking to the Post say this does not mean the party has locked down a reliable new generation of GOP voters.

Cuellar’s partner, Rick Salinas, told the Post that his vote for Trump last November was “a question of trying something else — trying something new.”

“We voted for him because we want prosperity,” said Salinas, who now complains that Trump is deporting people “who are working hard” and who have been in the country for years. He added that the deportations are doing nothing to help the local economy.

“It’s not helping anybody. The price of construction just went up, and I don’t see a bunch of U.S. citizens lining up to take those jobs,” Salinas said. He also warned that many South Texas voters who put their trust in Trump late last year may just “go back to what they had before.”

“You’re counting on a Mexican American to vote Republican again? crazy-a—— bet, bro,” Salinas said. “Because down here, what makes a difference is dollars and cents.”

Read the full report at this link.

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Trump border official: Blame Congress for ICE masks

President Donald Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, says that if Americans object to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wearing masks during their often warrantless detentions of undocumented immigrants, they should take it up with Congress—which, he claims, is fueling the controversy by comparing ICE to Nazis.

In recent months, numerous reports have surfaced of ICE agents—some wearing masks and lacking identifying patches—detaining undocumented immigrants, lawful residents, and even U.S. citizens, sparking widespread outrage across the country.

The acting head of ICE, Todd Lyons, on Sunday defended agents wearing masks, and said he would continue to allow them.

“As Donald Trump has ramped up his unprecedented effort to deport immigrants around the country, ICE officers have become notorious for wearing masks to approach and detain people, often with force. Legal advocates and attorneys general have argued that it poses accountability issues and contributes to a climate of fear,” The Guardian reported.

While acknowledging he is “not a proponent of the masks,” Lyons told CBS News on Sunday, “if that’s a tool that the men and women of ICE [need] to keep themselves and their family safe, then I will allow it.”

But some state and local officials want to ban the practice.

“Images of masked, armed agents in plain clothes grabbing people off the streets and rushing them into unmarked vehicles have alarmed many Americans — and put pressure on lawmakers to respond,” Axios reported on Saturday. “A growing number of Democratic-leaning states and cities are weighing proposals to ban federal immigration agents from wearing masks and require them to display IDs when making arrests.”

Tom Homan, speaking to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Tuesday, said that the practice of wearing masks will continue, but he alleged the blame lies with Congress—and specifically its “far-left” members.

“Look, the masks, I think, are important,” Homan said. “How do we get rid of the masks? Stop the hateful rhetoric. The assaults on ICE officers are up 800%.”

“I specifically mean members of Congress. If members of Congress can compare ICE to the Nazis, that gives some of those people on the far left—the out-of-control people—it emboldens them to take action.”

“I’m just asking, let’s stop the hateful rhetoric. If you question what ICE does, then let’s go to Congress and talk about the immigration law and what changes are needed, but again, they’re simply enforcing the law that they’re required to enforce and uphold the oath that they took to enforce those laws.”

There is no law that says ICE is required or allowed to wear masks—or banned from doing so.

“There is no constitutional protection or ban on immigration agents wearing masks or face coverings,” The Washington Post reported on Monday.

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Farmworker dies after fall from greenhouse during California ICE raid

A Mexican farmworker who reportedly fell from a greenhouse while trying to hide during a Trump administration raid on a Southern California farm has died from his injuries, the United Farm Workers union announced Friday.

Federal authorities including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, many clad in military-style gear, stormed farms in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties on Thursday to execute search warrants for undocumented people. At Glass House Farms in Camarillo—which grows state-legal cannabis as well as tomatoes and cucumbers—the invading agents were met with spirited resistance from hundreds of community members who rushed to the site in support of targeted workers. Federal officers responded by firing tear gas and less-lethal projectiles at crowds of protesters who were blocking area roadways in a bid to prevent arrests.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that officers "arrested approximately 200 illegal aliens" from Glass House Farms and another farm in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, where protesters also descended, and were met with tear gas and pepper balls, according to local news outlets. DHS also said they found at least 10 immigrant children on the farm.

The Associated Press reported that a farmworker, identified as Jaime Alanís, phoned his wife in Mexico and told her about the raid in progress, saying he was hiding with other workers. Alanís fell from his hiding place and suffered broken neck, fractured skull, and a rupture in an artery that pumps blood to the brain, his niece Yesenia—who did not want to give her full name—told the AP.

"They told us he won't make it and to say goodbye," she said.

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United Farm Workers (UFW) said Friday that "other workers, including U.S. citizens, remain unaccounted for."

"Our staff is on the ground supporting families," UFW said in a statement. "Many workers, including U.S. citizens, were held by federal authorities at the farm for eight hours or more. U.S. citizen workers report only being released after they were forced to delete photos and videos of the raid from their phones."

"UFW is also aware of reports of child labor on site," the union continued. "The UFW demands the immediate facilitation of independent legal representation for the minor workers, to protect them from further harm. Farmworkers are excluded from basic child labor laws."

"These violent and cruel federal actions terrorize American communities, disrupt the American food supply chain, threaten lives, and separate families," UFW added. "There is no city, state, or federal district where it is legal to terrorize and detain people for being brown and working in agriculture. These raids must stop immediately."

The raids appear to be ramping up, even before ICE receives an historic $46 billion funding infusion via the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump last week. Video footage posted on social media in recent days showed ICE officers and other federal agents arresting people in courthouses, a hospital, and marching through a suburban Utah neighborhood.

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Democratic U.S. lawmakers were among those condemning the Trump administration's crackdown and mourning Alanís' death.

"A farmworker has died following a federal raid in Southern California. This is a heartbreaking and deeply troubling development," Congresswoman Norma Torres (D-Calif.) said on social media. "Immigrant communities deserve safety and dignity. I'm calling for a full investigation and accountability."

"Congresswoman Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said that "ICE is out of control."

"This is not law enforcement," she added. "It is state violence."

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Priest cites Goebbels propaganda after Trump deputy chief of staff’s latest rant

Stephen Miller’s latest anti-immigrant rant is drawing attention, including from a well-known Catholic Jesuit priest, who appeared to liken the White House Deputy Chief of Staff’s remarks to those made by Hitler’s notorious Reich Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, in 1941.

Miller, one of the most powerful members of the Trump administration, is seen as the principal architect of the President’s anti-immigration and deportation policies.

“U.S. Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. Masked immigration officers at courthouses and popular restaurants. Bans on travelers from more than a dozen countries,” Reuters reported on Friday. “For senior White House aide Stephen Miller, the architect of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, things were going according to plan.”

Denouncing the city government of Los Angeles as “waging a campaign of insurrection against the federal government,” Miller on Friday painted a scenario without undocumented immigrants in remarks made to Fox News.

“Let’s be very clear,” he said. “What would Los Angeles look like without illegal aliens?”

“Here’s what it would look like: You would be able to see a doctor in the emergency room right away, no wait time, no problem. Your kids would go to a public school that had more money than they know what to do with. Classrooms would be half the size. Students who had special needs would get all the attention that they needed.”

“There would be no violent transnational gangs. There would be no cartels. There would be no Mexican Mafia. There would be no Sureños. There would be no MS-13 There would be no TdA.”

“You would be living in a city that would be safe, that would be clean, there would be no fentanyl, there would be no drug dens,” he alleged. “That could be the future Los Angeles could have, but the leaders in Los Angeles have formed an alliance with the cartels and their criminal aliens.”

Some of Miller’s claims are incorrect. For example, public schools often receive state funding in part based on the number of students and their attendance rate. Fewer students in classrooms means fewer dollars. And federal funding is tied to the number of low-income students and students with disabilities.

Miller’s claims about fentanyl and “drug dens” also don’t hold up. Most fentanyl comes into the U.S. via U.S. citizens, according to the Cato Institute.

Father James Martin, editor-at-large for America Magazine, which is published by the Jesuits, responded to Miller’s remarks by posting a quote from Goebbels:

“The enemy is in our midst. What makes more sense than to at least make this plainly visible to our citizens?”

It’s not the first time Father Martin has responded to Miller’s anti-immigrant rants with a quote.

In April, he quoted the Bible:

“‘I was a stranger and you did not welcome me’ (Matthew 25).”

See Martin’s post and video of Miller’s remarks below or at this link.

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Massive blow to Trump agenda as majority of Americans rebuff key policy

A record-high majority—nearly eight in ten Americans—now view immigration positively, with similarly strong support for a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants—particularly those brought to the U.S. as children. The Gallup poll also found that most Americans favor maintaining or increasing current immigration levels.

Meanwhile, large segments of the public oppose expanding the number of immigration enforcement agents—a cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. Overall, just 35% of Americans approve of Trump’s immigration policies, while 65% disapprove.

Gallup’s report deals a major blow to the very core of President Donald Trump’s agenda, and his “One Big, Beautiful Bill” that dramatically increases spending on immigration enforcement, including detention camps, deportations, and removal, even to third-party countries.

“Americans have grown markedly more positive toward immigration over the past year, with the share wanting immigration reduced dropping from 55% in 2024 to 30% today,” Gallup reported on Friday. “At the same time, a record-high 79% of U.S. adults say immigration is a good thing for the country.”

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“These shifts reverse a four-year trend of rising concern about immigration that began in 2021 and reflect changes among all major party groups,” the top-rated pollster also reported.

Now, just 38% of Americans support deporting all undocumented immigrants, in vast contrast to the stated Trump agenda. That’s down from 47% last year.

In what could be seen as a warning to the GOP, Gallup notes that “the desire for less immigration has fallen among all party groups, but it is most pronounced among Republicans, down 40 percentage points over the past year to 48%.”

Just this week, several top Trump administration officials have continued to promote his anti-immigrant policies.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins this week told reporters there will be “no amnesty” for undocumented farm workers while insisting adults on Medicaid could replace them.

“There will be no amnesty, the mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation,” Secretary Rollins said.

Republican Senators have been promoting the Trump anti-immigrant agenda as well. On Thursday, U.S. Senator Ashley Moody (R-FL) called Democrats who oppose the often warrantless raids and tactics used by the DHS’s frequently masked ICE agents, “ignorant pawns of a subversive anarchist agenda.”

President Donald Trump’s and the Republican Party’s budget, which Trump signed into law last weekend, is tremendously unpopular, including his exponential expansion of immigration enforcement budgets, as well as aspects that gut vital social safety net programs like Medicaid and Medicare.

Critics praised Gallup’s findings.

“Nativism had its 6 months and now it’s clear that it’s not the answer,” wrote Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies David J. Bier.

NBC News senior national political reporter Sahil Kapur, pointing to the Gallup statistics, called it “backlash politics.”

“Turns out, mass kidnappings and deportations are deeply unpopular when put into practice,” observed New York State Democratic Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher.

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'Racial profiling': Trump border official blasted for claim ICE can detain for 'personal appearance'

President Donald Trump’s hand-picked border czar, Tom Homan, is facing backlash from legal and political experts after asserting that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents do not need “probable cause” to detain individuals—and can do so based on factors like “personal appearance.”

“Look, people need to understand,” Homan told Fox News on Friday. ICE officers “don’t need probable cause to walk up to somebody, briefly detain and question them.”

“They just need to tally the circumstances, right?” he claimed. “They just go through their observation, you know, get out typical facts based on the location, the occupation, their physical appearance, their actions.”

“A uniformed border police officer walks up to them, for instance, at a Home Depot. And they got all these … facts, plus the person walks away or runs away,” Homan said, offering one scenario. “Agents are trained. What they need to detain somebody temporarily and question them.”

“It’s not probable cause,” he insisted. “It’s reasonable suspicion.”

“We’re trained on that. Every agent, every six months, gets Fourth Amendment training over and over again,” Homan said.

Legal experts blasted Homan’s remarks.

Professor of Law, former U.S. Attorney and MSNBC/NBC News legal analyst Joyce Vance summed up Homan’s remarks: “Racial profiling.”

“This is patently false,” declared U.S. Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY), also an attorney, “DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop.”

Attorney and California Democratic state Senator Scott Wiener charged, “This is literally the definition of a white nationalist police state.”

U.S. Rep. Yvette Clark (D-NY) warned, “Trump’s thugs will racially profile you, then go on national television to brag about getting away with it.”

Attorney and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Evan Gold explained, “Walking up to people (without threatening) is legal. But ‘detaining’ people without ‘reasonable suspicion’ of criminal or quasi-criminal activity is illegal. Racial profiling is not cause for the required reasonable suspicion. ‘Let me see your papers’ is un-American.”

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), who, in a highly-publicized incident was forcibly removed and handcuffed by federal agents at a DHS press conference, wrote: “And there you have it. Under the Trump Administration, ICE and Border Patrol are being empowered to stop and question you based solely on how you look. No probable cause. No real reason. Just your ‘physical appearance.’ That’s not justice—it’s profiling.”

“They’re saying the quiet part out loud now,” wrote New York Democratic State Senator Gustavo Rivera. “Don’t get it twisted: if we let them keep doing this, they’ll find a reason to come for ANY ONE OF US soon enough.”

“THEY ARE ADMITTING IT,” wrote David J. Bier, Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies and an expert on legal immigration, border security, and interior enforcement. “Homan is admitting to participating in a criminal conspiracy against the Constitution of the United States,” he alleged.

Max Flugrath, communications director for Fair Fight Action, wrote: “Trump’s Border Czar and Project 2025 contributor says ICE can detain anyone based on ‘suspicion’ and physical ‘appearance.’ That’s not immigration policy, it’s fascism.”

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Canadian Trump supporter feels 'a little differently' after he's denied reentry to US with kids in tow

NBC Boston News reports Immigration Enforcement has blocked a New Hampshire man from returning home to his partner and five children after a family trip to Canada.

"They denied me reentry and said, 'Don't come back or we will detain you,' and the only way for me to get back in was to see an immigration judge," Chris Landry told NBC10 Boston from the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Nearly 20 years ago, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license. He was given a suspended sentence and paid his fines, and medical marijuana use is now legal in New Hampshire. Landry told reporters he's had no criminal record since then.

Landry, who has been a legal resident in the US since he was 3 years old and has supporter President Donald Trump, said he blames the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration for shattering his family.

"I was definitely all for 'Make America Great Again,' and having a strong, unified country, and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently," Landry said. "I've been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely."

"Possessing a green card is a privilege, not a right,” US Customs and Border Protection told NBC10 Boston. “And under our nation's laws, our government has the authority to revoke a green card if our laws are broken and abused. Lawful Permanent Residents presenting at a US port of entry with previous criminal convictions may be subject to mandatory detention and/or may be asked to provide additional documentation to be set up for an immigration hearing."

Officials intercepted the 46-year-old Landry on Sunday at the Houlton, Maine border. Landry was with three of his children at the time of the stop.

"It's just very uncertain for me right now," he says. "I might end up spending the rest of my life in Canada. Who knows if I'll ever have the right to reenter the United States at this point?"

The Trump supporter has since turned to Democrats in New Hampshire's congressional delegation for help, requesting they intervene on his behalf.

The office of Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.HH) told reporters it is currently working with Landry.

“Helping constituents navigate federal agencies and processes is a core function of Senator Hassan's office."

Officials with the offices of Reps. Maggie Goodlander and Chris Pappas, also Democrats, told NBC10 Boston they were "deeply concerned” about Landry’s removal.

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'Torn from my family': Father of 5 no longer a Trump supporter after green card revoked

46-year-old Chris Landry, a Canadian-born legal U.S. resident who’s lived in New Hampshire since age 3, supported President Donald Trump in the last election. But on Sunday, things took a sharp turn. Returning from a family vacation with three of his children via the Maine border, Landry learned his green card — granted in 1981 — had been revoked.

He was warned he’d be arrested if he attempted to reenter without approval.

“I was definitely all for ‘Make America Great Again’ and having a strong, unified country and a bright future for my five American children, but now I feel a little differently,” he told NBC Boston, in a report published Wednesday. “I’ve been torn from my family. My life has been disregarded completely.”

He says he was held for three hours and questioned about long‑past offenses, including marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license — with convictions dating back to 2004 and 2007. He paid all fines and received suspended 60‑day sentences for each, and asserts he has stayed out of trouble since.

Still, he felt his treatment at the hands of border agents was heavy-handed. “I never expected that I wouldn’t be able to go back home,” he told Manchester, New Hampshire ABC affiliate WMUR.

Landry continued: “It was scary. I felt like I was being treated like a criminal.”

Last month, NPR reported that the Trump administration has intensified criminal background checks for legal permanent residents returning to the U.S., resulting in several high‑profile detentions and even removals.

These stricter screenings have reportedly left many green‑card holders reconsidering whether traveling abroad is worth the risk of potentially being denied reentry.

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Trump and MAGA are making this key federal agency 'miserable' — and it’s only getting worse

The Trump Administration, with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is pushing mass layoffs at a variety of federal government agencies — from the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to the National Weather Service (NWS). And President Donald Trump is toying with the idea of eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) altogether.

But one agency that President Donald Trump clearly isn't defunding is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which he signed into law over the 4th of July Weekend, includes $178 billion for immigration enforcement over the next decade — with much of that money going to ICE, which will become the largest law enforcement agency in the United States.

But the fact that ICE is receiving a great deal of funding doesn't necessarily mean that its employees are happy.

In an article published on July 10, The Atlantic's Nick Miroff explains why many ICE employees are "miserable" — funding and all.

"ICE occupies an exalted place in President Donald Trump's hierarchy of law enforcement," Miroff explains. "He praises the bravery and fortitude of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers — 'the toughest people you'll ever meet,' he says — and depicts them as heroes in the central plot of his presidency, helping him rescue the country from an invasion of gang members and mental patients. The 20,000 ICE employees are the unflinching men and women who will restore order. They're the Untouchables in his MAGA crime drama. The reality of Trump's mass-deportation campaign is far less glamorous."

Miroff continues, "Officers and agents have spent much of the past five months clocking weekends and waking up at 4 a.m. for predawn raids. Their top leaders have been ousted or demoted, and their supervisors — themselves under threat of being fired —are pressuring them to make more and more arrests to meet quotas set by the Trump adviser Stephen Miller. Having insisted for years that capturing criminals is its priority, ICE is now shelving major criminal investigations to prioritize civil immigration arrests, grabbing asylum seekers at their courthouse hearings, handcuffing mothers as their U.S.-citizen children cry, chasing day laborers through Home Depot parking lots. As angry onlookers attempt to shame ICE officers with obscenities, and activists try to dox them, officers are retreating further behind masks and tactical gear."

An ICE official, interviewed on condition of anonymity, described ICE Agents' jobs as "mission impossible" and told Miroff, "It's miserable."

"I recently spoke with a dozen current and former ICE agents and officers about morale at the agency since Trump took office," Miroff reports. "Most spoke on the condition of anonymity, for fear of losing their job or being subjected to a polygraph exam….. Some ICE employees believe that the shift in priorities is driven by a political preoccupation with deportation numbers rather than keeping communities safe. "

The agents, according to Miroff, expressed "frustration" and "described a workforce on edge."

One long-time ICE agent believes the Trump Administration's priorities are wrong-headed, telling Miroff, "No drug cases, no human trafficking, no child exploitation. It's infuriating.”

Nick Miroff's full report for The Atlantic is available at this link (subscription required).

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Supreme Court hands 'huge' loss to Trump and DeSantis over illegal Florida law

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's injunction preventing Florida from enforcing a law that criminalizes undocumented immigrants for entering the state.

The decision preserves a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams (a Barack Obama appointee), who found that Florida’s statute likely conflicts with the federal government's exclusive authority over immigration policy.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier (R) and state officials had filed an emergency request on June 17, asking the Supreme Court to lift the injunction and permit enforcement of the law while appeals continued, according to the Associated Press.

Williams had previously ruled the legislation was likely unconstitutional, citing federal preemption, and held Uthmeier in contempt for encouraging local law enforcement to proceed despite the injunction.

The law, passed during a special session in February and signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), had designated illegal entry by undocumented individuals as a criminal offense under state jurisdiction.

It was the seventh such state-level immigration law introduced in recent years.

Supporters included America First Legal — a conservative legal organization affiliated with President Donald Trump's senior advisor Stephen Miller — and attorneys general from 17 additional Republican-led states, who submitted amicus briefs backing Florida’s position.

Opponents, including immigrant rights groups and the ACLU, challenged the measure under the Supremacy Clause.

With the injunction intact, the law remains unenforceable as lower-court litigation progresses.

The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene keeps the status quo in place and prolongs the legal examination of Florida's attempt to regulate immigration at the state level.

Reacting to the decision, legal experts welcomed the development.

In a post on the social platform X, Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council reacted to the decision and wrote: "HUGE. And also unquestionably the correct response."

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'What's my contingency plan?' Farmers and ranchers worried Trump deporting their workforce

President Donald Trump's agenda is hitting rural America particularly hard, with many farmers and handlers of livestock finding themselves in the midst of a labor shortage.

According to a Tuesday report in Politico, that worker shortage is primarily due to the Trump administration's immigration policy, which has ensnared many farm workers who are living in the U.S. both with and without legal status. Matt Teagarden, who is the head of the Kansas Livestock Association, told the outlet that "essential isn't a strong enough word" to describe how much ranchers rely on immigrants to do the labor necessary to care for large numbers of farm animals.

"It is some version of an immigrant, maybe not first generation, but second or third generation, that are just critical to that work," he said, adding: "Am I going to have enough crew around tomorrow to get the cows milked and cows fed and everything done? What’s my contingency plan to do the essentials, if not?”

Since his second term began, the Trump administration has detained tens of thousands of immigrants. That number is likely to go up significantly after Trump ended Temporary Protected Status (or TPS, which allows immigrants from unstable and war-torn countries to temporarily live to the United States) earlier this week for immigrants from Honduras and Nicaragua. That revocation could mean that many of the approximately 76,000 immigrants in the U.S. from those countries would no longer have work authorization, and could be placed in deportation proceedings.

Stuart Anderson — who leads the nonpartisan think tank National Foundation for American Policy — said that the ensuing deportations would be counterproductive to the economy. He pointed out that if an economy is to grow, the labor force needs to grow as well.

"The idea that you are just going to create more opportunity by having fewer workers available just doesn’t work in practice, because that’s not the way business runs," Anderson said.

The Trump administration is attempting to point to its recently signed budget law as a potential solution for a labor shortage in rural communities. Politico reported that U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins defended the legislation's new stringent work requirements for Medicaid recipients, saying that farm work could be a potential avenue for employment for those on Medicaid to keep their health insurance.

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'Trying to nail Jell‑O to a wall': Judge rebukes DOJ over 'illogical' timeline

A federal judge sharply rebuked the Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday, labeling its explanations as “illogical” during a grueling hours-long session. The judge pressed officials for clarity over the handling of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland man who, after being mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month, was indicted on smuggling charges even as the Trump administration claimed it had no authority to secure his return.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis drilled into the timeline and grilled the DOJ attorney.

“How could you, six days later, tell me you had no power to produce him when you’d already secured an indictment against him? How could you secure an indictment against someone you had no power to produce? It’s illogical," she said.

Bridget O’Hickey, the DOJ attorney making her debut in the courtroom Monday, defended the administration’s stance, saying it was still negotiating with El Salvador.

She also appeared to contradict previous testimony regarding when the criminal probe began — initially claiming it started April 28, over a month after the deportation — before conceding her uncertainty under the judge's questioning.

“I’m unfamiliar with the timeline, your honor," she said.

Abrego Garcia’s legal team accused the DOJ of constructing a criminal case as a face-saving measure to obey the court’s order returning him to U.S. soil. For weeks, administration officials — including President Donald Trump — asserted that Abrego Garcia would not be removed from El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

Then in April, Judge Xinis ordered his return and the Supreme Court quickly reinforced that directive.

The judge expressed sharp dissatisfaction Monday with the DOJ's failure to provide specific details about what would occur if Abrego Garcia were released next week.

She suggested ordering the Department of Homeland Security to produce an official by Thursday who can explain the procedure for sending Abrego Garcia to a third country — including whether a destination has even been chosen.

“It’s like trying to nail Jell‑O to a wall trying to figure out what’s going to happen next week," she said.

AlterNet reached out to the DOJ for comment.

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'Enormous conflict' coming as Trump ramps up 'partisan political police force': insider

Much of the criticism of President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which he signed into law over the 4th of July Weekend, is focused on its draconian Medicaid cuts and tax breaks for the ultra-rich as well as how much it will increase the United States' federal deficit. Although Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) shares those criticisms, she is also highlighting another part of the bill she finds deeply troubling: its major funding of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In a post on Bluesky, AOC wrote, "I don't think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what's happening now look like child's play. And people are disappearing."

Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg is also sounding the alarm about Trump's use of federal law enforcement to push a far-right agenda. During an appearance on The New Republic's podcast posted on July 7, Rosenberg warned that an "enormous conflict" is coming as Trump ramps up his "partisan political police force."

Rosenberg told host Greg Sargent, "We're waking up today to the Republicans just passed essentially something to create this partisan political police force that reports to the president that is unprecedented and completely out of character for any democracy — and it wasn't really a major part of the conversation and debate over the last couple of months. So yeah, this is going to be an area of unbelievable, enormous conflict that we have to lead with and not be dragged into. It's going to hurt the economy. It's inhumane. It's a violation of everything that we believe is American."

The Democratic strategist continued, "The public is already not there on this. And this stuff is going to get wild.""

Sargent predicted that the U.S. will see "intense civil conflict in the streets, more kidnappings, more violence" and "more dehumanization of immigrants" in the months ahead — and he got no argument from Rosenberg.

Rosenberg told Sargent, "What is Donald Trump going to do for the next 16 months? He needs to create daily spectacles. He's reveling in the sadism of his administration. And you just get the sense that a large part of his understanding of what he's going to do in the role as president that he plays on television is going to be to beat the crap out of immigrants — in public. And now, he has unprecedented tools to do it. Certainly, we have to be far more forceful in challenging this."

Listen to The New Republic's full interview with Simon Rosenberg at this link or read the transcript here.

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Trump’s MAGA supporters revolt over his 'great betrayal'

President Donald Trump’s base appears to be piling on his recent pitch to allow some immigrant workers to remain in the country.

Trump made closing the border and blanket removal of most immigrant elements a fundamental leg of his campaign, but Mediaite reports his nativist base have no place for what they see as his capitulation to immigrant employers.

“This is just amnesty, even worse it’s amnesty for specific industries,” posted Auron MacIntyre, host for MAGA outlet ‘The Blaze’. “This is not what Trump promised, it’s not what MAGA voters want.”

CNN Goldman Sachs reports undocumented immigrants account for 4 to 5 percent of the total US workforce and between 15 to 20 percent in the crop production, food processing, and construction industries. It also warns a “significant share” of deported workers could cause bottlenecks, shortages, and price increases. In response, Trump proposed legislation that allows some undocumented workers to stay.

“You had cases where, not here, but just even over the years where people have worked for a farm, on a farm for 14, 15 years and they get thrown out pretty viciously and we can’t do it,” Trump told supporters at an Iowa rally. “We gotta work with the farmers, and people that have hotels and leisure properties too.”

“Now, serious radical right people, who I also happen to like a lot, they may not be quite as happy, but they’ll understand,” he added. “Won’t they? Do you think so?”

Responses suggest not.

“Trump wants to let hotels owners, many of whom are receiving interest-free minority and migrant loans, and getting tax breaks, to give amnesty to its illegal immigrant labor?” said right-wing commentator Mike Cernovich on X. “What percentage of hotels are owned by Americans? It’s much lower than it used to be. How can you compete when a H-1B gets a tax break and low or no interest loan? Now Trump is talking about giving them even more – amnesty for their workers? This would be a great betrayal.”

“No,” posted the Immigration Accountability Project on X. “Americans did not vote for amnesty. We voted for mass deportations. Amnesty is NEVER the answer.”

Other commenters, like alt-right activist and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec demonized employed immigrants, claiming, “the murderer of Mollie Tibbetts was a Mexican illegal who worked on a dairy farm in Iowa. She was brutally murdered just an hour away from the Iowa fairgrounds.”

Read the full Mediaite report at this link.

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'Utterly deplorable': This MAGA tactic against political rivals 'sends a chill down the spine'

Donald Trump is far from the first U.S. president to have an aggressive deportations policy. During former President Barack Obama's eight years in the White House, some of his Spanish-speaking critics on the left called him "El Rey de las Deportaciones" ("The King of Deportations") or "El Jefe de Deportaciones " ("The Boss of Deportations") during their appearances on Univision and Telemundo.

Yet Trump, during his second presidency, favors some immigration tactics that previous presidents, both Democrat and Republican, never considered — from calling for an end to birthright citizenship (which is protected by the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment) to calling for some naturalized U.S. citizens to be denaturalized and stripped of their citizenship.

The naturalized U.S. citizens who some MAGA Republicans would like to denaturalize and deport for being Trump foes were born in Somalia (Rep. Ilhan Omar), South Africa (Tesla/SpaceX head Elon Musk) or Uganda (Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani).

In a scathing op-ed published by The Guardian on July 3, journalist/author Justice Malala calls out MAGA's denaturalization push as deeply troubling — even when the target is Musk.

Malala writes, "Elon Musk is an utterly deplorable human being…. So the news that Donald Trump 'will take a look' at deporting his billionaire former 'first buddy' Musk has many smirking and shrugging: 'Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.' I like a good comeuppance, but this doesn't please me at all. It sends a chill down the spine."

Malala continues, "It is the use of law enforcement agencies as a tool to chill debate, to silence disagreement and dissent, and to punish political opposition. Democracy is dimming fast in the United States, but threats to deport U.S. citizens for disagreeing with the governing administration's policies are the domain of authoritarian regimes such as Belarus or Cameroon."

Malala notes that far-right Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) is calling for Mamdani to be denaturalized and asked U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate him. Trump, meanwhile, is attacking Mamdani as a "communist" and said, "We don't need a communist in this country."

Mamdani, however, is not a communist, and actual Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyites and Maoists don't consider him one. Rather, Mamdani identifies as a "democratic socialist" like his allies Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York).

"Mamdani has not broken any laws," Malala emphasizes. "His sin? Running for office. In his threats against Mamdani and Musk, the president comes across like the notorious Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. McCarthy was, according to the Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold, 'judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.'"

Malala continues, "Trump's threats to Musk and Mamdani are a departure from the (Trump) Administration's modus operandi of targeting foreign students involved in pro-Palestinian organizing on U.S. college campuses. It is now targeting people it disagrees with on any issue. The threats are not based on any generally applicable laws, but on the whim of the president or other administration leaders. It is an escalation of the assault on civil liberties using government entities to arbitrarily investigate and potentially punish critics."

Justice Malala's full op-ed for The Guardian is available at this link.

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A new MAGA policy blatantly 'violates constitutional principles': experts

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) is calling for Democratic New York City mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, who was born in Uganda but is a naturalized U.S. citizen, to lose his citizenship — a proposal he made in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. And Ogles isn't the only far-right MAGA Republican who is pushing for the denaturalization of people they disagree with politically.

The Trump Administration is not only pushing for an end to birthright citizenship, but also, for ramping up denaturalization and stripping more people of their U.S. citizenship.

In an op-ed published by MSNBC's website on July 1, law professors Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta argue that the denaturalization push from MAGA Republicans is at odds with "constitutional principles."

"The Trump Administration made denaturalization a priority during the first term, creating a special Justice Department section to pursue these cases," the legal experts explain. "The Administration now appears positioned to expand these efforts with a policy requiring that denaturalization be pursued wherever legally possible. As the apparent next step in the Trump Administration's mass deportation regime, this rarely used but potentially far-reaching government power is getting newfound attention."

Robertson and Manta add, "As legal scholars who study denaturalization, we believe the new Justice Department policy could significantly expand the circumstances under which naturalized Americans might lose their citizenship in ways that raise serious constitutional questions."

The attorneys point out that denaturalization "was relatively rare" during "most of American history."

"It spiked during the Red Scare era when the government targeted alleged communists and Nazi sympathizers but largely disappeared after the 1960s after the Supreme Court imposed constitutional limits on the practice in Afroyim v. Rusk," Robertson and Manta note. "In that case, the Court held denaturalization was unconstitutional in most circumstances, leaving open only cases in which someone 'illegally procured' citizenship by not meeting requirements or obtaining it through fraud or concealment of material facts. In the half-century after this decision, fewer than 150 Americans were denaturalized, mostly former war criminals who had hidden their pasts."

According to Robertson and Manta, MAGA Republicans' denaturalization push could lead to troubling violations of constitutional liberties.

"Civil denaturalization cases provide no right to an attorney, meaning defendants without resources often face the government without representation," the legal scholars argue write. "There are no jury trials, with judges making citizenship determinations alone. The burden of proof is 'clear and convincing evidence' rather than the criminal standard of 'beyond a reasonable doubt.' Additionally, there is no statute of limitations, allowing the government to build cases on decades-old evidence that may be incomplete or unreliable."

Robertson and Manta continue, "We believe this procedural framework violates constitutional principles. The Supreme Court has recognized citizenship as a fundamental right, with Chief Justice Earl Warren describing it as the 'right to have rights.' Taking away such a fundamental right through procedures that would be inadequate for minor civil disputes appears to violate basic due process protections. More fundamentally, we argue that aggressive denaturalization policies conflict with constitutional principles of citizenship."

Cassandra Burke Robertson and Irina D. Manta's full MSNBC op-ed is available at this link.

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'Don’t have a smidgen of hope': Noem to divert FEMA money as flood victims struggle

The New Republic reports Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem intends to use FEMA funds to build a new detention center in Florida.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier revealed his approval of plans for funding the facility, called “Alligator Alcatraz” with federal money last week. He said on Fox News that the hostile Florida Everglades would act to deter escape from the 39-square-mile site.

“You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there’s not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide,” said Uthmeier.

Despite proposed saving from the facility's isolation, The New York Times reports it will cost $450 million every year to operate the center, and Noem posted on X that this will be funded “in large part … by FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program.”

“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are working at turbo speed to deliver cost-effective and innovative ways to deliver on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of criminal illegal aliens,” Noem’s claimed. “We will expand facilities and bed space in just days, thanks to our partnership with Florida.”

Congress established FEMA’s Shelter and Services Program in 2023 to help state and local governments provide services to immigrants seeking legal processing through the Department of Human Services.

While the Trump administration prepares to funnel FEMA resources to immigration, U.S. flood victims, like Kentucky resident Brad Carroll, tell reporters they are still waiting for FEMA to dispense aid for flood damage back in April.

“I don't have a smidgen of hope anymore,” Carroll told reporters last week, adding that flooding from a nearby river had left him drowning in bureaucracy while he navigates FEMA’s application process.

FEMA reportedly approved assistance for flood victims last month, but Carroll said he has yet to receive assistance after multiple inspections and assessments.

Read the full New Republic report at this link.

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'Barbarism': Analyst says this new Trump policy proves he was 'never about law and order'

In an article published Tuesday in The Washington Post, columnist Catherine Rampell argued that President Donald Trump is intensifying efforts to isolate the United States from the rest of the world—not just economically, but demographically and culturally.

She highlighted a sweeping expansion of travel bans this month, with Trump blocking nearly all entry from 12 countries and partially restricting citizens from nine more. A leaked State Department memo suggests 36 additional countries could soon be added.

Rampell questioned the credibility of the administration’s stated reasons — such as preventing visa overstays — noting that high-overstay nations like Canada are conspicuously absent from the list.

Instead, she argues, the bans disproportionately target lower- and middle-income countries with majority non-White populations, particularly across sub-Saharan Africa.

"It was never about 'law and order' or hunting down criminal gangbangers or making sure people came in 'the right way' through the 'big beautiful door' in Trump’s wall. It is and always was about humiliating and discarding immigrants — regardless of their legal status or contributions to their communities, and especially if they are Black or Brown," Rampell wrote.

She pointed out that while a handful of major companies have acknowledged the risks posed by federal immigration measures, the broader business community has remained notably silent. Most top executives and industry leaders, Rampell noted, have avoided speaking out about these immigration policies and other economically harmful actions linked to Trump.

"That’s the thing about walls: They keep the supposed barbarians out. But they also keep the real barbarism in," the author said.

Last week, Trump pushed for an intensified immigration crackdown in several major Democratic-run cities, a move widely seen as retaliation for the massive “No Kings” protests against his administration over the weekend, which drew millions nationwide.

However, questions loom over whether the agency tasked with carrying out the effort — Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)— has the financial means to do so.

Axios reported Monday that ICE is currently $1 billion over budget and could run out of funds within one to three months.

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Noem-led dept 'spending like drunken sailors' as report says Trump agency is $1 billion over budget

Although President Donald Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is deporting people at a slower pace than President Joe Biden did last year, ICE, under the direction of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, is reportedly $1 billion over budget—even as Trump on Sunday issued a new order directing the agency to carry out “the largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

Even before that order, Trump’s “immigration crackdown” has been “burning through cash so quickly that the agency charged with arresting, detaining and removing unauthorized immigrants could run out of money next month,” Axios reported on Monday. ICE “is already $1 billion over budget by one estimate, with more than three months left in the fiscal year.”

“Trump’s DHS is spending like drunken sailors,” U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) told the news outlet. “They are spending likely in the neighborhood of a billion dollars more at ICE than we authorized, and that’s patently illegal.”

But one former federal budget official told Axios, “I have a feeling they’re going to grant themselves an exception apportionment, use the life and safety exception, and just keep burning money.”

Trump could make emergency declarations to get around the law, sources told Axios.

“You could imagine a new emergency declaration that pertains to interior enforcement that would trigger the same kind of emergency personnel mobilization statutes,” former Defense Department lawyer Chris Marisola told Axios.

“These statutory authorities authorizing the president to declare emergencies,” Marisola told Axios, unlock “a whole host of other authorities for these departments and agencies [that] are often written incredibly broadly and invest a lot of discretion in the president.”

Calling out what he claimed are “threats from Radical Democrat Politicians.” on Sunday night, President Trump declared that “ICE Officers are herewith ordered…to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.”

But the President also declared that program was to be conducted only in Democratic-led cities.

“In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump continued. “These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens.”

The President went on to claim that “Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports.”

Trump reiterated and expanded on his largely false claims on Monday, attacking “Democrat-run cities” and his predecessor, while speaking at the G7 in Canada.

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'Changes are coming!' Trump appears stunned to learn farms rely on undocumented workers

President Donald Trump acknowledged on Thursday that his aggressive and controversial immigration policies are stripping undocumented immigrants from the farming and agriculture workforce. Now, he declares, “Changes are coming!”

Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, reportedly at the direction of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, have been specifically targeting farms to detain and deport undocumented workers.

“The border is no longer the focus,” Reason reported Wednesday. “Now, the administration seemingly believes that the [immigration] crisis extends to nail salons, hardware stores, farms, and restaurants across the country, where undocumented immigrants who are peacefully exchanging labor for dollars are being targeted.”

The Trump administration “is ramping up immigration raids across the country, and farm workers are no longer being spared. Almost half of the more than 850,000 crop workers in the US are undocumented, the Department of Agriculture estimates,” according to Bloomberg News.

One raid at an Omaha, Nebraska, meat plant reportedly netted 70 detentions this week, and now the facility is operating with just one-third of its staff, Bloomberg reported.

President Trump may be hearing some of the many stories.

In a cryptic message on Thursday, he wrote: “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. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!”

He did not provide any details.

Critics mocked Trump.

“The president of the United States is seemingly unaware that his administration recently ordered ICE to round up and deport immigrants who haven’t committed crimes … like those who work in tourism and agriculture,” observed MSNBC columnist Michael A. Cohen, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies.

“Breaking News,” snarked Spencer Hakimian, a hedge fund chief investment officer. “The guy that spent the first 70 years of his life in construction, hospitality, and entertainment, accidentally finds out that our entire labor force runs off of illegal immigration. Oops!”

“Turns out,” California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote, “chasing hard working people through ranches and farms and snatching women and children off the streets is not good policy.”

But The New Republic’s Greg Sargent took a wider view.

“Trump just admitted that his mass deportations are bad for farmers and the economy, and crucially, also admitted that workers who are getting deported are ‘almost impossible to replace.’ That’s a massive repudiation of MAGA ideology,” Sargent wrote.

“It’s an enormous admission, both that his deportation policies are terrible *and* that he knows they’re awful politics for him,” he added.

“Every prominent Democrat in the country should jump on this immediately,” Sargent urged. “Enough b——- cowering on this issue. Get on this! Trump just handed you a massive weapon. Use it!”

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