Overview

• ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit sent an email on June 14 directing agents to suspend worksite arrests in agriculture, restaurants and operating hotels
• Recent raids in California fields and Nebraska meatpacking plants prompted 25–45 percent of local farmworkers to stop coming to work out of fear
• Trump acknowledged on Truth Social that aggressive immigration sweeps were removing “very good, long time workers” and creating labor shortages
• The American Farm Bureau Federation praised the pause for safeguarding food production and the United Farm Workers had described earlier enforcement as “chaotic”
• DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said the department will continue probing human trafficking, money laundering and drug smuggling while focusing removals on criminal illegal aliens