The New York Times Donald Trump’s government reported last week He decided to pause his controversial raids against migrants indefinitely in certain sectors of the US industry.
According to an email to which the newspaper and confirmation of US officials, the Executive had access He has ordered the Immigration and Customs Control (ICE) service to pause these operations.
However, this pause will only apply In the agricultural sector, hospitality and restaurants, According to the information.
According to the newspaper France24, The pause in the raids They also include aquaculture and meat packer plants.
The decision indicates that this arrest campaign at discretion to try to deport large -scale immigrants is harming industries already electoral constituencies whose support Trump wants to keep up to next year’s legislative.
Will the raids continue?
France 24 He clarified, citing the National Security Department, that “the measure does not necessarily mean that Donald Trump’s administration Go to end the arrests of undocumented people. “
This also means that raids will continue, But they will be more selective, according to media.
The medium highlights that the country’s agricultural and hotel industry It depends largely on migrant labor.
“The measure arrives after the apparent Concern for the general rejection of immigrants’s raids and arrests during their working days, Situation that detonated a wave of protests in Los Angeles that later extended to cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Austin, Texas, “he says France 24.
Trump’s arrests and raids They unleashed a wave of protests in the US.mainly in Los Angeles, where there were dozens of captured in the framework of the demonstrations.
“We will follow the president’s instructions and We will continue working to eradicate the streets of the United States To the worst illegal foreign criminals, ”confirmed Tricia McLaughlin, spokeswoman for the Department of Security.
Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has implemented an aggressive hard hand policy against immigration and responsible for his cabinet recently held a meeting with the ICE dome to order them to carry out three thousand arrests per day, A mandate that seems to be behind the intensification of the raids.