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Trump reverses ICE traffic-stop pause after deadly encounters

Trump reversed ICE's short-lived pause on most traffic stops after deadly encounters in Texas and Maine, keeping a key deportation tactic in place while investigators review the shootings.

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Trump reverses ICE traffic-stop pause after deadly encounters
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President Donald Trump moved Wednesday to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers using traffic stops, a one-day reversal of a pause ordered after fatal shootings involving federal agents in Texas and Maine. The decision puts a central enforcement tactic back in play while investigations and protests continue in both cases.abcnews

Trump wrote on his social media site that ICE “CANNOT give up” traffic stops, calling them one of the agency’s most effective crime-fighting tools. The AP reported that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin later said people illegally in the country would be “arrested and deported wherever they are,” but did not directly say how the stop policy would be carried out.abcnews

The pause had been ordered after two motorists were killed within six days. In Biddeford, Maine, an ICE officer fatally shot 25-year-old Colombian national Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during an operation on Monday. In Houston, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Mexican national Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a July 7 stop. DHS has said officers feared for public safety or acted in self-defense; relatives, witnesses or advocates have disputed parts of the government’s accounts.wwno

USA Today reported that the reversal overturned a July 14 ICE memo that told agents to scale back most immigration-related traffic stops and use other field tactics instead. Border czar Tom Homan described the pause as a short review of whether agents were safe and “doing the right thing,” not a permanent policy change.jpost

The dispute now centers on risk. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican, urged DHS to halt all non-urgent vehicle stops after the Maine shooting, saying two shootings in a week raised “very serious questions.” AP reported at least 10 deaths tied to federal immigration enforcement encounters since Trump began his deportation campaign, with at least four involving vehicles.democracynow

NBC News reported that senior ICE leaders were surprised by Trump’s intervention, a sign the White House had moved faster than the agency’s own chain of command.nytimes Al Jazeera reported that neither man killed in Maine or Texas was the intended target of the operations, and that federal authorities had not publicly released evidence showing either posed a threat that warranted deadly force.houstonpublicmedia