An ICE Summer To Remember

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| POLITICS

Source: Slate

Remember this song?

Yo VIP, let's kick it

Ice, ice baby

Ice, ice baby

Oh it brings back memories. Unfortunately, there will be more ICE raids happening in cities across America. Trump has announced they will focus on the democratic-leaning cities and towns. 

They'll show up at your local farms, restaurants, hotels, and even the Walmarts of America. Their goal? To snatch up illegal immigrants and send them back to their origin country.

Via Slate.com:

The agriculture and hotel industries collectively employ millions of immigrants and stand to take a major hit if they lose these workers, something Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins attempted to convey to the president. Elora Mukherjee, clinical law professor at Columbia University and director of the school’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, told me this is a stunning reversal by the president and something Americans are indicating they are not on board with. 

In a Pew Research Center poll conducted in early June, largely before the recent wave of raids in Los Angeles and subsequent protests, 54 percent of respondents said they disapprove of increasing ICE raids on workplaces where people who are in the U.S. illegally may be working. And while immigration still shows up as Trump’s strongest issue in the polls, recent surveys suggest his support from voters is softening there.

What the ICE agents are doing isn't illegal by any stretch of the law. It's just they started ramping up enforcement to unheard of levels, causing sheer panic amongst those businesses that rely on temporary foreign workers.

Who else is going to harvest the vegetables or other crops for America?

Again from Slate:

United Farm Workers, one of the largest farm workers unions in the country, called out the Trump administration’s latest flip-flop. “A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you,” the union said on X. “Who’s actually in charge?”

This is going to be a cruel summer indeed.