06/17/2025 Immigration Enforcement Policy Flip-Flopping is Putting the US Food Supply Chain at Risk

PLEASE REFER TO THE BROKER COMMENTARY PAGE FOR UPDATES!! Excerpt from the 6/12 Thursday Commstock Report: “Closing the border and deporting actual criminals is widely supported. After that there is a pause for reflection before going further. Most realize the degree to which our food supply chain is dependent on undocumented or falsely documented labor and are incredulous that they would purposely disrupt it, given the focus on food price inflation. Will ideology overcome good sense?” It appeared that President Trump was made aware of the big mistake that they are on the precipice of making, with their over-zealous immigration enforcement and deportation actions and stepped back from that brink last weekend. After vowing to protect farmers and that “changes were coming”. This is what followed: Breaking News: They called it a temporary pause in enforcement and deportations in this sector. You know how that goes… they could change it anytime. This a.m. it sounds like they did. The pause may have only lasted until Monday as word went out that this order was being at least partially reversed and the raids were back on. Packing plants, farms and hotels were targets for raids again. The backstory was that Ag Secretary Rollins…