Is Trump backing off his mass deportation plan?
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Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday, the Trump administration began directing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to pause immigration investigations and enforcement actions in the agricultural, hotel, and restaurant industries. Before ICE issued the new guidance to its field agents, President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged his immigration agenda had negatively impacted these industries and promised changes. However, on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told its staff that it had reversed this decision and to continue immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants.
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| 0:59.5 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. And on today's episode, we're going to be talking about President Donald Trump's deportation agenda, some signals that he sent late last week that that agenda might be changing and then a reversal |
| 1:12.5 | that we got last night. We're going to break down exactly what happened, share some views |
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