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🗓️ 16 June 2025
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0:00.0 | After a weekend of national protests over his immigration policy, President Trump says he wants a greater crackdown in some of the nation's biggest cities. |
0:09.5 | At the same time, the president is pulling back on ice raids in some major industries. |
0:14.9 | Lisa Desjardin has our look at this pivot point. Lisa? |
0:18.1 | In the past day, Trump wrote that he wants more detention and deportation |
0:23.0 | in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. But as he ramps up raids there, he is freezing his |
0:29.2 | push elsewhere with a temporary pause on most immigration arrests at farms, restaurants, and |
0:34.9 | hotels. On truth social, President Trump wrote, |
0:40.8 | Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration |
0:44.5 | is taking very good, long-time workers away from them. |
0:49.0 | Changes are coming. |
0:50.7 | For a closer look, I'm joined by Jenny Murray, |
0:52.8 | CEO of the Center Right National Immigration Forum, |
0:55.9 | which works on immigration and the economy. |
0:59.3 | Jenny, the length of this pause for farm and hospitality arrest is not clear, but is this |
1:05.5 | pause itself significant? |
1:08.5 | It is very significant. |
1:10.5 | We're very glad to see that the president realizes the very important role that these businesses play for America's economy and that these workers play for these American businesses. |
1:22.3 | You're talking behind the scenes all the time to businesses and also folks in immigration nonprofit. |
1:29.6 | Businesses first, what has the effect been so far of the raids up to this point? |
1:36.5 | Yeah, we've had, you know, quite a chilling effect. We have to say that there are lots of things |
1:41.2 | that are being laddered, right? There are tariffs. There's a |
1:44.3 | travel ban. There's the international student ban. We've seen parole and TPS ended, which is |
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