A new Department of Homeland Security policy stops immigration agents from arresting undocumented workers at job sites throughout Kansas. Secretary Mullin stated that ICE will continue to target individuals with final orders of removal and "heinous criminals," including drug traffickers, rapists, and murderers. The directive follows a series of ICE raids at meatpacking plants across Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas, which led some businesses in southwest Kansas to close temporarily this week.

Livestock associations in Kansas, Texas, and Oklahoma have issued a joint statement opposing workplace enforcement operations. Other critics have described the DHS directive as a form of amnesty that defies the expectations of 80 million voters.