Overview

• President Trump posted on Truth Social that “changes are coming” after farmers and hotel operators warned his aggressive deportation policy was stripping them of long-time undocumented workers they can’t replace.
• ICE has escalated sweeping raids in rural California, where an estimated 255,700 farmworkers lack legal status, triggering clashes and mass protests in Los Angeles.
• DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said the department will persist in following the president’s orders to remove “the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens.”
• Critics argue that ICE’s hardline operations have swept up non-criminal migrants and U.S. citizens, resulting in family separations and community disruptions.
• Senior adviser Stephen Miller is credited with driving the recent workplace raids that have heightened tensions between immigration enforcement and industries reliant on undocumented labor.