Op-ed: That Was Fast

Last week the president, intensely lobbied by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, announced that whole sectors of the economy would be off-limits to ICE enforcement, including farming, meatpacking, hotels, and restaurants. And it wasn’t just idle musing by the president; a senior ICE official sent a directive out to all regional managers Thursday, prohibiting even collateral arrests of non-violent illegals in those industries during any operations focused on trafficking and the like.

As you can imagine, officials inside the administration who prioritized the president’s agenda rather than industry concerns were outraged. As a result, the president started walking this back on Sunday night, posting on Truth Social that ICE agents should “do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History” and saying that enforcement should be intensified in sanctuary jurisdictions.

The matter was brought to a close Monday, as ICE announced that last week’s guidance to stop immigration enforcement was reversed, with a DHS spokeswoman confirming, “Worksite enforcement remains a cornerstone of our efforts to safeguard public safety, national security and economic stability.”

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[Read the whole thing at National Review.]