cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31701401
Edward Helmore
Sat 14 Jun 2025 13.08 EDT"The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations.
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” King wrote in the guidance, according to the outlet. "
If they really wanted to crack down on immigrants in the workforce, even at the height of the “they took our jerbs” hysteria, they could have just gone after the business owners that hired the immigrants. Turns out that would have hurt white people with money, though, so they didn’t pursue that method for some reason.
Same reason in why certain folks were appalled by the Mexican flags being flown within the United States as seen at LA protests, but don’t seem to have any concern during St. Patrick’s Day parades with the Irish flag.
See if you can spot the difference.