“For months, Trump administration officials have been adamant about targeting all the millions of immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, regardless of their work or taxpaying status,” Axios reports.

“But now Trump is making a huge exception: those working at hotels, farms, meatpacking plants and restaurants.”

“He’s bowing to pressure from businesses that have been warning of economic devastation — and is opening the door for potentially millions of workers who are here illegally to stay after all.”

New York Times: “President Trump’s decision to pause most raids targeting farms and hospitality workers took many inside the White House by surprise. It came after intensive lobbying by his agriculture secretary.”

“The United States is considering restricting entry to citizens of an additional 36 countries in what would be a significant expansion of the travel ban announced by the Trump administration early this month,” the Washington Post reports.

“Among the new list of countries that could face visa bans or other restrictions are 25 African nations, including significant U.S. partners such as Egypt and Djibouti, plus countries in the Caribbean, Central Asia and several Pacific Island nations.”

“President Trump acknowledged on Thursday that his immigration policies are hurting the farming and hotel industries, making a rare concession that his crackdown is having ripple effects on the American work force,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump, who has made mass deportation a centerpiece of his presidency, said on social media that ‘changes are coming.’ And while there was no sign of any significant modification to his policies, Mr. Trump’s statements suggested the scale of his crackdown may be alienating industries he wants to keep in his corner.”

Washington Post: Despite Trump’s claim, no policy change underway for migrant farmworkers.

G. Elliot Morris looks at the latest polling and finds Americans are split about the protesters against immigration raids but oppose President Trump’s response more.

And Trump’s approval ratings on immigration and deportations have now turned negative.

“A bitter feud is escalating between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Donald Trump’s top border official, injecting uncertainty into Congress’s attempt to pass the administration’s signature policy bill this month,” CNN reports.

“Key Trump adviser Stephen Miller came to Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Republicans on Thursday to resolve a disagreement over money for the bill’s border security provisions.”

“Paul and Miller have been locked in a dispute for days over the border funding. The White House is seeking $150 billion in funds for border security and deportation. But Paul – who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee – has repeatedly lashed out against the price tag of Trump’s bill and wants to dramatically cut down that funding.”

President Trump claimed “more than 15,000 foreigners have signed up for the Trump ‘gold card’ that offers applicants residency and a path to U.S. citizenship,” USA Today reports.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) was physically removed on Thursday from a Los Angeles press conference held by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Additional video showed Padilla being handcuffed and detained in the hallway outside the room.

President Trump indicated that he doesn’t want aggressive deportations to target the workforce of the hospitality and farming industries.

But border czar Tom Homan told Semafor “worksite enforcement operations are going to massively expand.”

“The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday told hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work in the United States had been revoked and they should leave the country,” CNN reports.

“The termination notice was addressed to nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who came to the United States through a Biden-era parole program.”

“President Donald Trump’s long-touted ‘gold card,’ which offers foreigners a path to U.S. citizenship after paying $5 million to the government, is open for business,” USA Today reports.

“But even if you have the money, there’s a waitlist at trumpcard.gov. And read the fine print carefully: Your $5 million doesn’t buy you immediate citizenship.”

The Department of Homeland Security released a poster featuring Uncle Sam urging members of the public to report “foreign invaders.”

Los Angeles Times: “Uncle Sam posters were originally employed as a tool to urge Americans to enlist in the Army during WWI. The posters were revived during WWII to once again recruit soldiers and spread other government messages such as promoting war bonds and warning against foreign espionage.”

“The Trump administration is preparing to begin the transfer of potentially thousands of foreigners who are in the United States illegally to the U.S. military base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, starting as early as this week,” the Washington Post reports.

“The foreign nationals under consideration hail from a range of countries. They include hundreds from friendly European nations, including Britain, Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine, but also other parts of the world, including many from Haiti.”

“Demands from the White House for a drastic increase in arrests of people who have entered the country illegally have pushed immigration officials into overdrive to fulfill President Trump’s pledge of mass deportations,” the New York Times reports.

“Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is carrying out workplace raids across the country like the one in the garment district of Los Angeles last week that kicked off protests and a vast federal response. The agency is staggering shifts so agents are available seven days a week to try to meet arrest goals and asking criminal investigators who usually focus on issues like human trafficking to help identify targets. It is also asking the public to call in tips to report illegal immigration.”

“Immigration authorities raided an Omaha meat production plant Tuesday morning and took dozens of workers away in buses, leaving company officials bewildered because they said they had followed the law,” Politico reports.

Said company president Chad Hartmann: “My biggest issue is: Why us? We do everything by the book.”

“The plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system ‘is broken.'”

“Some GOP lawmakers are starting to warn the Trump administration to reconsider its all-in deportation push,” Axios reports.

“Republicans are convinced they have a clear mandate to kick out hardened criminals and gang members. But differences are emerging on how aggressively ICE should deport workers, longtime residents and some people who’ve sought refuge from brutal regimes.”

“Armed National Guard troops mobilized by President Trump accompanied federal immigration enforcement officers on raids in Los Angeles on Tuesday, a move that the state of California has called unlawful and inflammatory,” the New York Times reports.