Trump says ICE won't halt traffic stops after recent fatal shootings
Trump said the tactic remains essential for arresting criminals as DHS reviews vehicle-stop procedures after two fatal shootings.
- On Wednesday, July 15, 2026, President Donald Trump directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume traffic stops, overturning a temporary suspension the Department of Homeland Security had imposed following two fatal shootings.
- The suspension followed fatal shootings of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 7 and 25-year-old Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, both during ICE operations.
- Agency officials acknowledged neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero was the intended target of the operations; agents lacked body cameras during both encounters, fueling demands for accountability.
- White House border czar Tom Homan initially described the pause as a short-term review, but President Trump's public intervention forced a swift reversal less than 24 hours later.
- Lawmakers including Maine Senator Susan Collins are demanding independent investigations into ICE traffic stops, a tactic linked to at least 10 deaths since the mass deportation campaign began in January 2025.
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President Donald Trump undermines DHS, insists ICE ‘cannot give up’ traffic stops amid pause in the wake of two fatal shootings
President Donald Trump reversed a Department of Homeland Security directive that had suspended most Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) traffic stops nationwide, saying agents “cannot give up” one of their most effective enforcement tools despite renewed scrutiny after two fatal shootings during traffic stops in a single week. Writing on Truth Social, Trump said ICE “must be strong, tough and smart and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s mos…
Trump revokes suspension of ICE traffic controls, according to a White House official By Julianna Bragg, CNN U.S. President Donald Trump overturned Wednesday's temporary suspension of most vehicle arrests by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), according to a White House official. The abrupt change of guidelines in less than 24 hours reveals the uncertainty faced by ICE agents as they attempt to achieve the goal of 2,000 daily …
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