cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31701401
Edward Helmore
Sat 14 Jun 2025 13.08 EDT"The New York Times reported that an internal email was sent on Thursday by Tatum King, a senior official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), to regional department leaders at Homeland Security Investigations, directing them to stop workplace immigration enforcement actions unless related to criminal investigations.
“Effective today, please hold on all work site enforcement investigations/operations on agriculture (including aquaculture and meat packing plants), restaurants and operating hotels,” King wrote in the guidance, according to the outlet. "
Any reduction in deportations is obviously good news, but part of me wanted to watch the effects of burgers costing $20 from a safe distance.
I call it the closet accelerationist in me. Never wants to take part in the actions that are being done, but wants to see the blowvack of if they were really allowed to do what they want.
meat packing plants
a JBS rep informed them that the entire administration, their families, and business associates would all be converted into sausage links and potted meat before being disappeared into the Aramark prison food supply if they continued to destabilize their labor pool with raids.
“don’t do the racist stuff that makes line go down, but other than that you’re all good to keep doing the racist stuff!”
Riots work?
In this particular case, more due to farm and hospitality CEOs complaining about their businesses collapsing
lol hey weird the Trump Empire’s two things
but i mean… it was a forgone conclusion
