Federal immigration authorities have continued to target illegal immigrant farmworkers under the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation despite President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that he would “soon” put in place protections for agricultural workers, according to the national union that represents workers.
Not long after Trump told reporters at the White House that he planned to take action to ensure farmworkers were not the focus of arrest efforts by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and federal police, immigrant rights advocates in one targeted region suggested that nothing had changed in 24 hours, likely because the White House has not yet issued a directive.
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