After trying to reach the goal of arresting and deporting 3,000 illegal immigrants per day, Trump paused the mid-June policy for only four days. After that, the cold-hearted raids by ICE returned. At the time, Rebecca Shi, CEO of the American Business Immigration Coalition, said, that, “There was finally a sense of calm.” But now, after the resumption of persecution, and the refusal to honor due process law, despite a Supreme Court ruling in its favor, the arrests have become even more violent and abusive. Said Shi, “We saw ICE agents on farms, pointing assault rifles at cows, and removing half the workforce.” One ICE raid left a New Mexico dairy with just 20 workers, down from 55. “You can’t turn off cows,” said Beverly Idsinga, the executive director of the Dairy Producers of New Mexico. “They need to be milked twice a day, fed twice a day.” More importantly, workers are, according to Claudio Gonzalez, a chef at a restaurant in Los Angeles, calling out of work due to fears they will be targeted by ICE. “They sometimes are too scared to work their shift,” Gonzalez said. “They kind of feel like it’s based on skin color.”
Read the full story by Associated Press for The Chief, published June 25, 2025, here: https://thechiefleader.com/stories/ice-raids-and-their-uncertainty-scare-off-workers-and-baffle-businesses,54641
