Trump’s Deportation Frenzy Reaches Crisis Point Across Multiple Fronts
Fields go unharvested. Courts go unstaffed. Green cards under review. Somalis targeted ni Minnesota. The administration’s wantonly xenophobic enforcement machine hits overdrive.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement apparatus escalated on multiple fronts Monday, with operations spanning from farm fields to federal courthouses, as new data reveals the policy’s mounting economic and human costs.
The administration paused all asylum decisions nationwide, fired eight immigration judges in Manhattan, froze applications from 19 countries, and announced reviews of every green card issued during the Biden years—all while ICE prepared a major operation targeting Somali immigrants in Minneapolis. The moves came as new reporting shows enforcement operations have already shrunk the agricultural workforce by at least 155,000 workers, driving labor costs up and forcing some farms to close entirely.
What ties these disparate actions together: a systematic dismantling of the immigration system as it existed three months ago, replaced by what amounts to a national verification regime that now screens Americ…