President Donald Trump said Thursday that he may create a carveout to his mass deportation efforts for hospitality and farm workers.
After facing criticism over immigration raids that picked up people who have lived in the U.S. for years, Trump said the White House is looking at executive action that would exempt employees of some farmers and hotels from the administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement push.
“You go into a farm and you look at people — they’ve been there for 20, 25, years, and they’ve worked great, and the owner of the farm loves them, and everything else and then you’re supposed to throw them out,” Trump said at the White House.