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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump Halts Immigration Raids on Farms and Hotels. Or Does He?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump moves to pause workplace enforcement in two industries that rely on migrant labor, saying his aggressive policy "is taking very good, long time workers away." But days later the White House seems to reverse course. Plus, Texas and the Justice Department quickly settle a lawsuit that will block a 2001 law letting Dreamers pay in-state tuition at public colleges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:40.7

The Trump administration, citing the economy, moves to ease workplace deportation raids on farms and hotels before maybe reversing

0:47.9

course now. Plus, the Justice Department uses a sue-and-settled tactic to block a Texas law

0:54.0

that offers in-state tuition to so-called dreamers.

0:58.6

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues, Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel.

1:06.9

President Trump seems to be being pulled in opposite directions on how far he wants his mass deportation project to go, including with respect to workplace immigration raids.

1:18.4

On Thursday morning, he posted this on True Social, quote, our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good longtime workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace, unquote.

1:39.0

Then over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security apparently directed immigration officials to pause immigration

1:46.0

raids on farms, restaurants, hotels. The journal's news story on this quotes a Homeland Security

1:52.6

spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, saying, we will follow the president's direction and continue to work

1:58.0

to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America's streets.

2:03.6

Yet the other instinct is also at play. Also, later on Thursday, President Trump wrote that President Biden had led in 21 million unvetted illegal aliens, said they had stolen American jobs, also added this, I campaigned on and received

2:19.6

a historic mandate for the largest mass deportation program in American history.

2:25.3

Now, there are some news reports on Monday that the Department of Homeland Security is

2:29.6

reversing course, undoing the pause that it had put on workplace raids, on farms, hotels, and so forth.

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