President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should continue using traffic stops, contradicting a recent temporary pause announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after fatal encounters involving ICE agents. Multiple outlets report that DHS directed federal officers to halt pulling drivers over temporarily, following shootings in which two men died within about a week—Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on 7 July and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. The Guardian reports that in both cases the men were unarmed and were not the intended targets, and that the agents involved were not wearing body cameras. France 24 and other outlets describe Trump’s remarks as urging ICE to resume or keep using vehicle stops, characterizing them as an effective crime-fighting tool. PBS NewsHour reports Trump also makes the case in a social media post that ICE should not “give up” traffic stops. While some coverage frames the situation as a debate over enforcement tactics after the deaths, the common thread across outlets is Trump’s decision to back continued traffic stops despite the agency-level suspension following the shootings.
Trump says ICE should keep making traffic stops after two fatal shootings
President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should continue using traffic stops, contradicting a recent temporary pause announced by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
- DHS temporarily halts or pauses ICE traffic/vehicle stops after fatal shootings involving ICE agents.
- Two men are reported killed in separate incidents tied to traffic stops: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine.
- Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops despite the pause.
- Some reports say both men were unarmed and not the intended targets of the operations.
- The shootings lead to renewed scrutiny of ICE enforcement tactics and use of body cameras, according to one outlet.
ICE has been trying to continue its mass deportations without drawing headlines. Our White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs explains how two fatal shootings at traffic stops raise the question of whether the Trump administration can continue its campaign without deadly consequences.
1 month agoUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have been ordered to pause most traffic stops in the wake of two fatal shootings. Donald Trump's so-called border tsar Tom Homan has described the move as a "temporary pause", denying it was a "policy change". Then on July 15, Trump seemingly undermined his agency, saying that Traffic Controls should continue. Meanwhile, anti-ICE protests continue in Maine, where a 25-year-old Colombian man was fatally shot two days earlier.
1 month agoU.S. Homeland Security effectively scrapped a new policy announced Tuesday that had suspended most vehicle stops except in serious criminal cases.
1 month agoEnding those stops, Trump wrote, would be “playing right into the criminal’s hands.”
1 month agoThe agency’s aggressive tactics are once again under scrutiny after an ICE officer on Monday killed a driver from Colombia.
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