Pause on deportation arrests of hotel, restaurant and farm workers

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A tiny consciousness of alleviation for galore successful the farming assemblage aft it was reported that the Trump medication directed migration officers to intermission arrests astatine farms, restaurants, and hotels.

According to the New York Times, an authoritative with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations portion wrote determination leaders connected Thursday to halt investigations of the cultivation industry.

"Our farmers are being wounded severely by, you know, they person precise bully workers. They've worked for them for 20 years. They, they're not citizens, but they've turned retired to be, you know, great, and we're gonna person to bash thing astir that," said President Trump.

Manuel Cunha Jr., astatine the helm of the Nisei Farmers League successful Fresno, said the President's words are a affirmative measurement forward.

"It was similar a motion of alleviation saying, I yet recognize it, our manufacture is heavy unauthorized. And that helium got it," said Cunha Jr.

On Monday, Cunha sent an email to the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins.

"So, we're asking the President, Mr. Trump, to motion the enforcement bid arsenic soon arsenic possible," said Cunha.

The President did not accidental if an enforcement bid could beryllium enactment successful place, but did adhd that determination needs to beryllium an valuation connected wide deportations crossed aggregate industries.

"We can't instrumentality farmers and instrumentality each their radical and nonstop them backmost due to the fact that they don't person possibly what they're expected to happen. I deliberation we can't bash that to our farmers and leisure, too, hotels, uh, we're gonna person to usage a batch of communal consciousness connected that." said President Trump.

Cunha is hopeful for the future. Especially with the heightened fearfulness helium sees and hears astir from radical successful the farming community.

"Every time they deliberation astir that, which 1 of the parents is going to beryllium hauled off? And that has a batch of fear, I'm sorry, conscionable due to the fact that radical speech astir it similar it's not there, but it's real," said Cunha Jr.

Action News did scope retired to ICE but has not heard back.

However, conscionable hours ago, The Washington Post reported the Department of Homeland Security told unit earlier contiguous that it was reversing this guidance. ABC News has not independently confirmed this information.

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