Help for farmers and hotels: Report: Trump weakens sharp migration course

After days against his migration policy and unusually self-critical words, US President Donald Trump weakens his strict deportation course. Trump’s government has relocated its focus in the campaign for mass deportations, writes the “New York Times”, citing unnamed US officials and an internal email. Officials from the ICE immigration authority have been instructed to largely suspend raids and arrests in agricultural companies, hotels and restaurants. The Ministry of Homeland Protection confirmed the new instruction.

Investigations in connection with human trafficking, money laundering and drug smuggling in the industries mentioned are still “okay”, according to the newspaper in the letter. “Non -criminal accompanying persons” should therefore be spared from arrests. According to “NYT”, the mail comes from the senior ICE official Tatum King and went to the regional bodies of the immigration authority.

Trump had indicated course change

In the metropolis of Los Angeles – where a particularly large number of people live without papers – protests against Trump’s sharp migration course and against security forces from the immigration authority, who arrest migrants without valid residence status, have been running for around a week. Trump’s arrangement is highly controversial to mobilize thousands of soldiers from the national guard and to send hundreds of marine fantry to California. The Republican had promised the largest deportation program in American history in the election campaign.

On Thursday, the President surprisingly struck self -critical words. “Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure sector have explained that our very aggressive immigration policy takes away very good, longstanding workers,” Trump wrote on the Truth Social online platform. They are not a citizen, but have proven to be “great”, he stated to journalists. The farmers cannot take their workers and send them back just because they lack something that they may have – that is, papers.

Ministry confirms the guideline

A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Homeland, Tricia McLaughlin, confirmed the “New York Times” research. “We will follow the president’s instructions and continue to work to remove the worst of the worst criminal foreigners from America’s streets,” she told the newspaper.