"In a surprise turnaround, ICE agents were instructed to pause most raids and arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants, the N.Y. Times reports from an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.
"Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels," a senior ICE official, Tatum King, wrote to regional ICE leaders on Thursday.
Between the lines: "The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump's mass deportation campaign ... is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose," The Times notes.
The Department of Homeland Security's Tricia McLaughlin confirmed the guidance: "We will follow the president's direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America's streets."
The email says agents aren't to make arrests of "noncriminal collaterals" people who are undocumented but who aren't known to have committed a crime, per The Times.
Investigations involving "human trafficking, money laundering, drug smuggling into these industries are OK," the email adds."
-Axios
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