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The Trump administration asked immigration agents to stop arrests on farms, restaurants and hotels about concerns that lose workers that hurt these industries, according to a report.
CBS News reported the shift in the politics of the industry that relies on immigrant workers. Officials noted that many workers in those industries in the United States without documents, according to the report.
The decision comes because the Trump administration has increased the efforts made to make more arrests and prepare migrants for deportation. The scenes of immigration, customs and enforcement who held immigrants in the fields and car washing newspapers took control of the headlines during the past week.
The high ice raids on immigrants sparked protests in Los Angeles and other cities throughout America. Violence in protests prompted the Trump administration to deploy the National Guard in California. The governor of Gavin Newose caused the use of American forces in the city, and the decisions sparked a series of legal challenges.
Currently, Washington can continue to use military personnel to protect ice agents and put out the protests.
The desired decrease in the arrests on farms and hospitality workplaces indicates fears that the batch of the deportation of President Donald Trump will harm the American business and economy, according to the CBS report.
A source told the port that Trump was not aware of the scale of the ice process, which led to a shift in implementation.
The source said to CBS.
“We will follow the direction of the president and continue to work to obtain the worst of the worst illegal foreigners from the streets of America,” CBS spokeswoman told CBS.
Earlier in the week, the president moved to social media to discuss the removal of hospitality workers.
The president wrote in fact: “Our farmers, businessmen in the hotel and entertainment have said that our very aggressive policy on immigration takes workers who suffer from a very long time from them, as it is almost impossible to replace it.”
Nearly 40 percent of crop workers and 90 percent of meat and dairy workers are illegal immigrants, according to federal estimates.
Trump talked about allowing migrants in the areas of hospitality to pass and then return as legal workers. But this was before the increase in ice raids and arrests seen in recent weeks.
“So one of the farmers will come with a message related to certain people, saying they are wonderful, they are working hard,” Trump said at April’s meeting in April. “We will slow down a little for them, and then we will eventually restore them. They will go out. They will return as legal workers.”
Now, the Trump team is looking to slow the ice arrests in those fields.
In general, there are more than 51,000 migrants in ice detention centers as of early June NBC News. Less than 30 percent of those who held criminal convictions.