Trump, farmers and immigration
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President Trump said he plans to make changes to his administration's aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration to address worker shortages.
The president's comments drew praise from Arizona agriculture and hospitality leaders who have long complained about chronic labor shortages.
Trump said he'd been told his immigration policies were "taking very good, long time workers away from" farmers and the hospitality industry.
President Trump admitted Thursday that his own immigration crackdown is gutting key American industries — and pledged that “changes are coming” to the White House’s policies. In a post on Truth Social,
Key TakeawaysPresident Donald Trump posted that "changes are coming" to his "aggressive policy on immigration," noting that farmers and the hospitality industry have lost "very good, long time workers.
There are no policy changes under way to exempt farm, hotel and other leisure workers from Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, the Washington Post reported on Friday, a day after the U.S. president vowed to issue an order for such workers.
The New York Times reports a shift in President Trump's immigration crackdown. The report says ICE is being asked to pause deportations at agricultural sites and to stop raids at hotels and restaurants.
President Donald Trump isn’t really planning any changes to his immigration or deportation policies, multiple people told The Washington Post. Trump said in a Truth Social post on Thursday that changes were coming to protect farmers from losing workers due deportations, the Post said. He mentioned hotel workers in the post as well.