President Donald Trump appeared to cave on one of his key campaign promises, according to several insiders who spoke with The Washington Post for its report FridayPresident Donald Trump appeared to cave on one of his key campaign promises, according to several insiders who spoke with The Washington Post for its report Friday
Trump caves on key promise after big business browbeats him into submission: report
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President Donald Trump appeared to cave on one of his key campaign promises, according to several insiders who spoke with The Washington Post for its report Friday, ditching a plan to deport countless migrants at the behest of an “extensive lobbying effort” that had not been previously reported.
Ahead of the 2024 election, Trump vowed to carry out the “largest deportation effort in American history,” Reuters previously reported, and appeared to be making good on that promise last month after his administration announced a rule change that would require the hundreds of thousands of green card applicants to leave the United States and apply overseas.
The rule change didn’t sit well with leaders in the “big business” community, however, which quickly launched a fierce lobbying campaign against the White House, warning the administration that the rule change could harm their workforce – and, per the Post’s report, appears to have won out.
“Late last week, the administration veered sharply in its messaging. [Trump administration] officials privately reassured business leaders in a meeting that most work visas would not be impacted, according to one of the people [familiar with the discussions],” the Post’s report reads.
“The agency also clarified to reporters that most immigrants seeking permanent residency would not have to leave the country, although officials have yet to issue any formal guidance saying so.”
Trump’s “softened stance on green cards,” as the Post described it, represented the latest rift between the business community that often relies on cheap foreign labor – which some critics have labeled as exploitative and “close to slavery” – and the president’s supporters, many of whom are hawkish on immigration.
While the Trump administration appears to have backed off its immediate efforts to force the hundreds of thousands of green card applicants out of the country, the recent lobbying effort that may have forced Trump’s hand was not an outlier, the Post noted.
“The recent lobbying effort builds upon a broader one that has been underway for months. Business leaders have been raising concerns about restrictive immigration policy in conversations with Trump confidantes who they perceive as more friendly with the business community, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of the Kushner family, according to two of the people who spoke to The Post,” the report reads.
“Business leaders have also been in direct communication with the White House, specifically the Domestic Policy Council, through private channels to voice opposition to immigration policies that restrict access to workers.”
A red state official ripped the Trump administration for how it mishandled a dangerous parasite now spreading fear.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said on CNN that he started talking to the White House and Agriculture Sec. Brooke Rollins "for the first time" recently about New World Screwworm, despite giving them information about how to mitigate it much sooner.
Miller was talking about killing the screwworm using fly bait and then sterile flies, and said that the Agriculture Department ignored his calls to deploy it sooner.
"At the USDA, they knew about it. It's not some trial. It's not some pilot program," Miller said. "They launched it, used it, I think six to eight different times. And it worked perfectly every time they used it in the '70s and '80s."
Screwworm can spread "pretty fast," Miller warned. The flesh-eating parasite is mostly a threat to cattle and the price of beef, CNN previously noted. The first U.S. livestock case in decades was detected on Wednesday, according to CNN reporting.
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President Donald Trump's Iran envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner made an unannounced trip to visit the nation's top nuclear experts at the national lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, according to an Axios report on Friday.
A deal to end the Iran war has not yet been reached, and many of the conditions were still under consideration, but the ongoing negotiations and secret meeting at the energy department facilities on Thursday signaled the experts "could play a role in nuclear negotiations with Iran," Axios reported.
"This meeting in Oak Ridge doesn't mean that a deal is going to happen, but it is a sign that the negotiations are in a very serious phase and that there is a good chance to get it done and we want to be prepared," a U.S. official told the outlet.
"Some of the country's foremost experts in uranium processing and centrifuge technology are based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Y-12 National Security Complex. In the past, nuclear materials and equipment — including from Kazakhstan and Libya — were routed through Tennessee," according to Axios.
The Trump administration and the National Nuclear Security Administration have not commented on the meeting.
The White House has indicated 'positive indications' of a potential finalized deal; however, internal divides among Iranian leaders have continued.
"If the negotiations advance to the second phase, the team of experts that met with Witkoff and Kushner would have to develop a plan for the disposal of Iran's nuclear material, how to limit the enrichment program further, and how to verify compliance," Axios reported.
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An internal government document obtained by 404 Media reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to arm more than 1,200 local police departments with a "flawed" facial recognition app capable of scanning anyone's face — no warrant, no consent, no notice required.
The app, called the ICE Task Force Module, would run face photos against a database of more than 250 million DHS and State Department records to determine whether someone is subject to deportation. The document — a Privacy Threshold Analysis filed by ICE's own privacy unit — acknowledges that U.S. citizens will inevitably be swept up in the scans. Every photo taken, whether it matches a target or not, gets stored for 15 years.
The technology would be distributed to agencies enrolled in the 287(g) program, which currently includes 1,220 departments across 32 states and two U.S. territories. Those local officers, the New York Civil Liberties Union has argued, are essentially turned into ICE agents.
Civil liberties groups say the plan is a disaster waiting to happen — and point to a track record that backs them up. In April 2025, Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a U.S. citizen with his Social Security card in hand, was arrested and held for 30 hours after ICE's facial recognition system wrongly flagged him as an unauthorized alien.
Nate Wessler, deputy director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, told 404 Media the plan is built on a broken foundation.
"This embarrassingly cursory document utterly fails to acknowledge the harms that will flow from putting a flawed face recognition app in the hands of many thousands of local police," Wessler said. "Sending local cops out to indiscriminately scan our faces, with a system that is known to generate false matches, that saves our data for 15 years, and that ensnares police into making immigration decisions that they are untrained for and that will undermine community safety efforts, is a recipe for disaster and for terrorizing members of communities across the country. DHS's privacy regulators fell down on the job. Now it's up to lawmakers to ensure this dangerous technology stays off our streets."
Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security and Surveillance Project, warned when an earlier version of the app briefly surfaced on the Google Play Store that handing "this powerful tech to police is like asking a 16-year old who just failed their drivers exams to pick a dozen classmates to hand car keys to."
Cooper Quintin, a security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told 404 Media the new document confirms the worst.
"Face surveillance was already a dangerous infringement of civil liberties in the hands of ICE agents," Quintin said. "Putting it in the hands of ICE's local partners will subject even more Americans to omnipresent surveillance and unjust detainment."
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