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THE FORUM DAILY
New guidance to halt raids on farms, hotels, restaurants and meat packing plants was sent on Thursday by email to regional leaders of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), report Hamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times.
The order comes after President Trump made comments admitting to the harm done to the agricultural and hospitality industries by recent immigration raids. In a separate piece also from The New York Times, a team reports that Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, has played a role in the decision by lobbing internally, sharing the rising concerns from farmers across rural America.
The agricultural industry has been receiving mixed signals since the beginning of this administration on the impact that immigration policy could have on its workforce, reports Ximena Bustillo of NPR.
Raids on farms last week coincided with visits from American Farm Bureau Federation leaders to congressional offices where they discussed their concerns over labor issues with lawmakers, Bustillo notes.
Separately, some estimates suggest that ICE is already $1 billion over their fiscal year budget and could run out of funds as soon as next month, reports Brittany Gibson of Axios.
The funding crisis concerns lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and likely stems from the administration’s goal of 3,000 arrests per day, highlights Gibson.
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