ICE on Ice
Workplace immigration raids on hold. In the face of public protests and an apparent lobbying effort by businesses and members of his administration, President Donald Trump ordered a pause on some workplace immigration raids.
That decision was made after Trump met last week with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, who reportedly impressed upon the president the essential role that immigrants (not all of them with proper documentation, it seems) play on American farms. But the pause seems to apply more broadly. Regional offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were told late last week to “hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” The New York Times reported on Friday.
That’s a sharp pivot for the administration, which had recently ordered ICE to step up its immigration enforcement by specifically targeting workplaces where undocumented migrants might be working. In recent weeks, raids have taken place at nail salons, hardware stores, farms, restaurants, and other job sites. (Last week I wrote about the community response to one such raid in San Diego.)
If we can’t have leaders who consistently take pro-liberty positions, then we should hope those who don’t will at least sometimes see the error of their ways. Immigration policies aimed at arresting and deporting members of criminal gangs might be broadly popular. Raids targeting individuals who are peacefully exchanging labor for dollars certainly aren’t. It’s good that Trump is listening to someone other than Stephen Miller about this stuff.
Minnesota shooting suspect arrested: Over the weekend, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D–Brooklyn Park) and her husband were killed, and state Sen. John Hoffman (D–Champlin) and his wife were wounded, in separate attacks carried out in the early hours of Saturday morning. Last night police arrested the man suspected of carrying out what seems to have been a politically motivated attack targeting state lawmakers.
The suspect is Vance Boelter, a 57-year-old man. He was arrested near Green Isle, Minnesota, about an hour west of Minneapolis, and he has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of second-degree attempted murder.Â
Israel and Iran still killing people:Â Israel claimed to have hit a command center for Iran’s Quds Force on Monday. Meanwhile, the bodies are piling up on both sides.
In a post on X, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said “there is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran” despite the ongoing bombardment of the city. The Iranian government claims that more than 200 people in Iran have been killed since the war began on Friday. At least 21 people have been killed in Israel.Â
Iran and the United States were supposed to negotiate during this week’s G7 summit, but “that ship s
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