At a cabinet meeting on April 10, President Trump indicated an interest in creating an avenue to legal status for agricultural employees, saying he wanted to ensure that farms and hotels with undocumented workers can continue to employ them. Trump said farmers would be able to “come in with a letter concerning certain people, saying they’re great, they’re working hard. We’re going to slow it down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back. They’ll go out; they’re going to come back as legal workers. We have to take care of our farmers and hotels and, you know, various places where … they need the people.” Trump offered his comment after hearing from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the department’s deportation efforts. No further details are presently available.

Also on April 10, non-profit public interest newsroom CalMatters reported U.S. Customs and Border Protection provided no information related to prior criminal records for individuals arrested by Border Patrol agents in a high-profile enforcement action in the Bakersfield area on January 7.

The enforcement actions triggered a wave of social and legacy media coverage and scattered and sporadic reports of both similar activities throughout California and reports of farm employees declining to work during citrus harvest and other wintertime farming activities and refusing to leave their homes and send their children to school. You can read more here: Border Patrol said it targeted known criminals in Kern County. But it had no record on 77 of 78 arrestees.