
Trump says changes are coming to ICE raid policy: 'We must protect our farmers'
President Donald Trump is reversing course on his immigration raid policy when it comes to farm workers, he announced on Truth Social.
"Our great farmers and people in the hotel and leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long-time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace," Trump wrote. "...We must protect our farmers, but get criminals out of the U.S.A. Changes are coming!"
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the change is happening because Californians spoke up. "Keep it going. Keep it peaceful. It's working," he wrote on X.
In a post on social media, Newsom shared a story about a 12-year-old boy he met in Oxnard whose parents had been taken by agents. They had been working the fields for over 20 years.
"Donald Trump may not care about him, but he's finally listening to you calling out these indiscriminate acts of cruelty," Newsom said. "Let's keep up the pressure, and let's do it peacefully.
Newsom added that he is watching the Trump administration closely and will hold the president to his word.
Eyewitness News previously reported about ICE agents targeting workers on produce farms in Ventura County on Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids in Southern California.
Farm workers told Eyewitness News that ICE agents arrived at an Oxnard farm at around 6 a.m. Tuesday.
"We saw a car when we were on the side, the car was coming, and ICE was following the car," said one of the workers who asked to remain anonymous.
Video posted online showed ICE agents chasing after some of the workers as they fled the fields.
It is unclear how many people were detained during the operation.