Trump FLIPS on ICE Raids **AGAIN** | Bad for Economy

in one single sweep. And so taking that

away was really hindering IC's ability

to meet those quotas. As we know, Steven

Miller recently told ICE to start

arresting 3,000 a day. So is all this

back and forth and shifting it seems in

policy just part of the strategy?

I don't know if it's necessarily part of

the strategy, but I think it's trying

it's part of what happens when you try

to walk a fine line between pleasing

others and not upsetting the base. And

so Trump wants to stay strong on

immigration. In fact, he was asked about

this by a reporter recently. Take a

listen to what that exchange sounded

like.

Homeland Security is saying that ICE is

going to start enforcing in hotels and

farms again. Is that a change of course

from last week? Well, we're going to

we're going to look everywhere, but I

think the biggest problem is the inner

cities. Last week, Donald Trump u-turned

and said that ICE should not arrest

people on farms, restaurants, hotels, or

in meat packing facilities. This was

seen as a reasonable reversal from

Donald Trump as instead of going for

innocent uh you know, noncriminal, I

should say undocumented workers, the

focus shifted to we're going to go for

just criminals. We'll try to do some

more filtering so that we don't wreck

the economy all of a sudden in areas

where there are hotels, restaurants or

farms substantially increasing the cost

likely of those related goods and

services. Of course to this a lot of

people say that's okay. I'll pay more

for my food. But the reality is when you

get a clamshell of strawberries and it

already cost you four or five bucks,

do you really want to pay $10 for a

clamshell of strawberries? Somewhat

challenging. That said, apparently that

Donald Trump flip-flop, which went from

we're going to arrest illegals

everywhere and we're going to raid the

farms and Home Depots and the

restaurants and every business has

turned into no, we're not going to raid

restaurants, meat packing facilities,

farms uh and and hotels to now flipping

once again,

ICE agents have been told to continue

conducting enforcement operations at

agricultural businesses.

Despite concerns about the negative

effects on the food industry, the

Department of Homeland Security on

Monday told staff it was reversing

guidance issued last week that agents

were not to conduct immigration raids at

farms, hotels, and restaurants. Donald

Trump himself said this at a press

conference that they were going to not

do this because he had been getting

calls from businesses and restaurants

that they're just getting reamed and

that his administration is killing their

ability to operate. Officials from ICE,

including Homeland Security's

Investigation Division, told agency

leaders in a call Monday that agents

must conducting

immigration raids at agricultural

businesses, hotels, and restaurants.

According to two people familiar with

the call, the new instructions were

shared in a 10 11:00 a.m. call to

representatives from 30 field offices.

ICE and Homeland Security's

Investigation Field Officer supervisors

began learning about a likely reversal

Sunday after hearing from DHS that

leadership

uh, you know, did not support this

position. An official from DHS sent an

email Thursday telling agents to hold

all work site enforcement investigations

on aquaculture, meat packing,

restaurants, hotels, agriculture. This

message went out hours after Trump

suggested he was sympathetic to concerns

raised by farmers and the hospitality

executives. This is this is exactly what

we're talking about. We saw Trump do

this live. We were covering it live. We

saw the U-turn live. It was actually

something that a lot of people cheered.

Both Republicans and Democrats were

cheering Donald Trump for flipping on

this. The fact that now there seems to

be a flip back again is pretty weird and

it shows this kind of lack of

coordination in the Trump

administration. Now, don't get me wrong,

I'm not trying to bag on the Trump

administration. I try to bag on

everyone. And if I was going to, you

know, be a little bit frustrated right

now, is that honestly, as somebody who

loved watching The Apprentice, I was

hoping that somebody would, uh, you

know, get these deals done a little bit

maybe more smoothly, uh, you know, I

would have liked to have a deal with

Putin. I would have liked to have had a

deal with Iran. Maybe the war could be

over in Ukraine and less people would be

dying. We just had an American citizen

that died in a drone strike against an

apartment building in Kiev. Then you've

got potential now a nuclear war

escalation in the Middle East. Whether

or not Iran actually has nuclear

weapons, Israel is treating it as if

they do. And now Donald Trump is sending

a message to all citizens of Tran to

evacuate which China is echoing

suggesting Chinese and US intelligence

suggests that either Israel or Israel

and the United States are about to do

something kooky is kind of scary because

it means Trump deals didn't work out

with Russia and Putin. Trump deals

didn't work out with Iran. Trump deals

are not working out with trade

negotiations with any country other than

deficit surplus entity United Kingdom.

Beyond that, Japan's not even talking to

the United States anymore and we're

coming up on tariff negotiation

expirations. Now, there's a lot of hope

in markets that, you know, we'll end up

getting taco. Trump always chickens out.

But it's kind of sad because you just

think like this supposed to be the deal

maker and chief here. We're just not

really getting deals. Scary. So, now

this additional flip-flop just makes me

wonder like what's happening at the

Trump administration? Is there literally

zero coordination between, you know, the

White House offices and the rest of the

government? It's kind of scary because

again, a lot of people, both Democrats

and Republicans combined, were cheering

Donald Trump flipping and focusing on

the violent offenders rather than just

everyone on the farm.

There will quote be no safe spaces for

industries who harbor violent criminals

or purposefully undermine ICE efforts.

Well, and there shouldn't be. Nobody's

trying to harbor violent criminals.

Nobody. Everybody wants them gone. But

again, this is where you're getting DHS,

and this gets echoed a lot on the

mainstream media. This is where you get

this official position from DHS. Oh,

we're we're coming after all the violent

criminals. We're going to raid

everything. Yeah, but you're arresting

everyone,

even people who aren't violent. ICE has

been under significant pressure from

White House officials to ramp up arrests

to fulfill Trump's goal of enacting the

largest deportation operation in

history. Uh Steven Miller last month

said the administration wants ICE to

make a minimum of 3,000 arrests per day.

They got to fill their freaking quotas.

This is crazy. Trump had been pulled

into two directions on the issue.

recently coming under pressure from

executives in the agriculture and

hospitality industry to loosen up on the

sweeping deportation problems that was

causing them migrant workers. And mind

you, these are very different jobs from

the jobs that you know typically you see

legal immigrants want. You know, or or

legal Americans for that sake. Americans

or legal immigrants who who are

typically are more part of our service

industry such as customer service, being

you know weight staff, being a real

estate agent, being a lender, you know,

working in software or whatever. This is

a very different industry or even

working in the government for that

sense. Very different industry from

working uh uh you know on on the farms

uh you know in 90°ree weather collecting

strawberries or whatever the weather

might be. The president on Thursday

wrote on social media that changes are

coming to help protect farmers from

losing workers. Well, apparently that's

U-turning, though. A White House

official told the Post at the time that

no actual policy changes were being

proposed by the White House. And then,

of course, we get this pivot.

Some immigration experts say ICE would

need to ramp up work site enforcements

uh to basically meet their quotas.

And it seems like that's what this is

about. Now continuing raids though are

going to be focused on the democratic

cities uh outside and inside democratic

city. We will continue to expand efforts

in sanctuary cities which is you know a

little bit targeted but then again

cities are also your melting pot and

that's where you're going to have the

most amount of immigrants. So whether

this is targeted at Democrats or that's

just a happy coincidence for uh you know

Trump and Republicans is unclear. But

flipping again on this little bit of a

bummer to see because once again it's

just a lack of coordination amongst the

uh uh the White House and um United

States agencies. Sad. Why not advertise

these things that you told us here? I

feel like nobody else knows about this.

We'll we'll try a little advertising and

see how it goes. Congratulations, man.

You have done so much. People love you.

People look up to you. Kevin Pra there,

financial analyst and YouTuber. Meet

Kevin. Always great to get your take.