Reversal comes days after president posted on Truth Social his ‘very aggressive’ raids were hurting farmers and hotels

Donald Trump has abandoned his brief immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) reprieve for farm and hotel workers, ordering the agency’s raids in those sectors to resume after hardliners crushed a pause that lasted just four days.

The whiplash reversal, first reported by the Washington Post, exposes the dysfunction gripping the president’s deportation agenda, where competing advisers battle over policy while Trump lurches between contradictory positions.

  • It'sbetterwithbutter@lemmus.org
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    I hate to say this, but as a Middle Easterner living in Africa, i’m genuinely laughing at America’s docile descent into a racist authoritarian regime.

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      He was able to do this partially bc wars and death in Middle East are good distractions.

      Both are sad.

      Americans are pathetic, sure, but I don’t feel much to laugh about.

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        The number of US backed wars in the ME is one of the reasons the US population won’t get much sympathy from that region. It’s ironically funny