Trump forced to go back on his most important policy

He’s been warned about it before, but now it seems he’s finally listened.

What is happening?

President Donald Trump has vowed to deport up to 20 million unauthorized immigrants living in America.

However, independent research from Pew Research Center estiamtes the actual number of illegal immigrants living in the US is only approx. 11 million.

The unconvenient truth

But over the last couple of weeks, an inconveniet truth seems to have hit a lot of the supporters of the crackdown on immigrants – and Trump seems to have noticed it as well.

“Changes are coming!”

In a post on Truth Social published last week, the President wrote that “Changes are coming!” regarding the deportation of immigrants.

But what changes? And why?

Farmers are unhappy

According to multiple media, including Axios and The New York Times, the day before the post to Truth Social, Trump had recieved a call from his Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, warning him that the US farmers are becoming increasingly unhappy with the immigration policy.

But why is that?

The reason for the unhappiness is that the farmers fear that reliable workers risk being arrested and deported due to being unauthorized immigrants – or that the workers will simply stop coming to work out of fear of being arrested.

Not the first warning

According to American media, it’s not the first time, Trump has been warned of the possible consequences of his immigrations policy, but this time he seems to have listened – and acted.

“We must protect our Farmers”

In the post on Truth Social, Trump wrote:

“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 (…) This is not good. We must protect our Farmers.”

New ICE-guidelines

Following the post, new guidelines have been issued to ICE-employees all over the US.

The new guidelines state that investigation of criminal conduct in the relevant industries is still allowed, but that arresting non-criminals should seize.

4.6 % of the workforce

According the American Immigration Council, it is estimated that 4.6 % of the US workforce is illegal immigrants.

In the agricultural industries, it’s 42 %.