Tag: Farms

DHS Reverses Course on Exempting Farms, Hotels from Immigration Raids: Report

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The Department of Homeland Security is reversing course on exempting farms and hotels from immigration raids, according to a report.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told agency leaders in a call Monday that officers must continue conducting immigration raids at agricultural businesses, hotels, and restaurants, according to unnamed sources, The Washington Post reported. The call took place at 11 a.m. on Monday with representatives from 30 field offices across the country.

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Conservatives Livid over Farm Worker Deportations Pause, Some Blame Brooke Rollins

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President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pause deportations at farms and hotels has drawn ire from his supporters, many of whom have blamed Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and the agricultural lobby for what they perceive as a betrayal.

“Brooke has always been suspect on immigration, among other things,” wrote American Majority CEO Ned Ryun. “She’s a Perry/Bush Republican who grifts off the America First movement to self promote.  Before America First she grifted off of the conservative movement in Texas.  She’s always been a grifting establishment ladder climber who will be whatever she needs to be to advance herself.”

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Solar Developments Are Spreading Across America, Threatening Farmers and Local Communities

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Fueled by massive federal subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), solar developers are looking to the wide open spaces of rural lands as the best places to site their projects. This is also where much of America’s farm and range land is located, as well as communities that like the existing look and character of their neighborhoods.

Last week, President Biden said of the IRA, “I’m proud to announce that my, uh, my investments, that through my investments, the most significant climate change law ever. And by the way, it is a $369 billion bill. It’s called the — uh, we, we should have named it what it was.”

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