ICE has expanded its net significantly in the past few weeks, and some Republicans including President Trump (!) are pushing back:
President Trump 6/12/25 on Truth Social: ““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, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.”
Trump in oral remarks 6/12/25: “I put out a statement today about farmers. Our farmers are being hurt badly by…They are very good workers. They’ve worked for 20 years. They’re not citizens but they’ve turned out to be you know great and we’re going to have to do something about that we can’t take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don’t have maybe what they’re supposed to have maybe not, and you know what’s going to happen and what is happening — they get rid of some of the people because you know you go into a farm and you look and people don’t they’ve been there for 20-25 years and they’ve worked great and the owner of the farm loves them and everything else and then you’re supposed to throw them out and you know what happens they end up hiring the people the criminals that have come in they’re murderers from prisons and everything else so we’re we’re going to have a an order on that pretty soon we can’t do that to our farmers and leisure to hotels we’re gonna have to use a lot of common sense.”
Trump on Truth Social 613/25: 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, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace. In many cases the Criminals allowed into our Country by the VERY Stupid Biden Open Borders Policy are applying for those jobs. This is not good. We must protect our Farmers, but get the CRIMINALS OUT OF THE USA. Changes are coming!
Republican Hispanic Caucus letter on 6/11/25 to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director Todd Lyons: “We strongly agree that convicted criminal aliens—smugglers, murderers, and sex offenders—pose an immediate threat to our homeland security, and we are committed to making sure you have the resources to find, prosecute, and deport them as soon as possible. That said, we are also concerned that your limited resources may be stretched to pursue individuals that do not constitute an immediate threat to public safety,” the members wrote in the letter.
“While we do agree that we are a nation of laws—and that all who crossed our borders illegally are subject to those laws—there are levels of priority that must be considered when it comes to immigration enforcement. Every minute that we spend pursuing an individual with a clean record is a minute less that we dedicate to apprehending terrorists or cartel operatives,” (Go here.)