cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31701401
Edward Helmore
Sat 14 Jun 2025 13.08 EDT"The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations.
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” King wrote in the guidance, according to the outlet. "
I hope those workers leave to find better opportunities, all while fucking these redhats
If they go through with this, deportation numbers will plummet and some very vocal elements of the right wing are going to lose their shit.
Good.
Yeah, should be fun to watch.
So what are they shifting to?
'Cause we all know they’re not backing off.
More elementary schools probably
Where I live they have not hit any hotels, but they have taken people that were riding the buses on long commutes. On average the hotels where I live are mostly staffed by people who live 1.5-2 hours away by a few buses.
Transportation is probably where they will go next. If they hit that hard then no one will feel safe taking transportation, which would have the same effect on the economy as hitting actual workplaces themselves
The GOP remembered they like food and vacations.
They remembered they owned hotels and most of their voters are farmers.
Bread and circuses you say?
Isn’t this an admission that immigrants, yes even undocumented ones, are a key critical piece in our economy? That getting rid of them hurts those that are not immigrants too? Most importantly, our way of life which we so enjoy cannot exist if they are not a part of it. Immigrants are not our enemies, as we are also a nation of immigrants.
I’d bet it has more to do with optics and political strategy
If they really wanted to crack down on immigrants in the workforce, even at the height of the “they took our jerbs” hysteria, they could have just gone after the business owners that hired the immigrants. Turns out that would have hurt white people with money, though, so they didn’t pursue that method for some reason.
Same reason in why certain folks were appalled by the Mexican flags being flown within the United States as seen at LA protests, but don’t seem to have any concern during St. Patrick’s Day parades with the Irish flag.
See if you can spot the difference.
Yes, but I’d view it through the limited lens of empathy-lacking Republicans.
I’d like to propose a new adage: Let’s call it Trump’s Razor: Where Republicans are concerned, never attribute to principles what can more easily be explained by corruption.
Most likely the raids are starting to affect someone in the in-group, be it a hotel magnate or factory-farming donor. They complained and it’s stopping. I don’t expect this is the result of philosophical reflection.
I second Trump’s Razor, this is an easy way to cut through the bullshit
another TACO?
Yeah… still fuck these guys
Press X to doubt.
Or someone has finally found the correct bribe amount for the orange shit gibbon
