Trump says changes are coming to ICE raid policy: 'We must protect our farmers'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- President Donald Trump is reversing people connected his migration raid argumentation erstwhile it comes to workplace workers, he announced connected Truth Social.

"Our large farmers and radical successful the edifice and leisure concern person been stating that our precise assertive argumentation connected migration is taking precise good, long-time workers distant from them, with those jobs being astir intolerable to replace," Trump wrote. "...We indispensable support our farmers, but get criminals retired of the U.S.A. Changes are coming!"

According to the U.S. Agriculture Department, 42% of harvest farmworkers from 2020 to 2022 lacked ineligible status.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the alteration is happening due to the fact that Californians spoke up. "Keep it going. Keep it peaceful. It's working," helium wrote connected X.

In a station connected societal media, Newsom shared a communicative astir a 12-year-old lad helium met successful Oxnard whose parents had been taken by agents. They had been moving the fields for implicit 20 years.

"Donald Trump whitethorn not attraction astir him, but he's yet listening to you calling retired these indiscriminate acts of cruelty," Newsom said. "Let's support up the pressure, and let's bash it peacefully."

Newsom added that helium is watching the Trump medication intimately and volition clasp the president to his word.

Trump's determination to halt ICE raids connected farmworkers comes conscionable months aft a national justice successful Fresno barred Border Patrol agents from arresting idiosyncratic suspected of surviving successful the U.S. illegally unless they person a warrant oregon a crushed to judge the idiosyncratic mightiness fly earlier a warrant tin beryllium obtained.

That ruling came aft Border Patrol agents carried retired "Operation Return to Sender" successful Central California. Officials accidental 78 radical were detained successful the January operation.

Earlier this week, our sister presumption KABC reported astir an ICE raid targeting farmworkers successful Venture County.

Video posted online showed ICE agents chasing aft immoderate of the workers arsenic they fled the fields. It is unclear however galore radical were detained during the operation.