President Trump speaking emphatically, gesturing during Oval Office remarks.Trump Overrules DHS, Keeps ICE Traffic Stops Despite Fatal Shootings
Intra-Party Split Detected
Trump publicly overruled DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and ICE leadership's decision to pause traffic stops, and Republican Sen. Susan Collins urged halting non-urgent stops, exposing tension within the administration/GOP over balancing enforcement with safety concerns after fatal shootings.
Left says
- •Two U.S. citizens killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis earlier this year, plus recent deaths in Texas, Maine, and Florida, reflect a pattern of lethal force that predates and outlasts any single policy fix.
- •DHS itself, under Secretary Mullin, judged a pause necessary after the Maine and Texas shootings, and Trump personally overrode that internal safety judgment for political and enforcement-numbers reasons.
- •Witnesses in the Houston and Maine shootings dispute DHS's official justification that victims tried to flee or endanger officers, raising questions about accountability when no body camera footage exists to verify claims.
- •Blaming the body camera rollout delay on a Democratic-led government shutdown deflects from years of slow-walked funding and deployment, including Congress allocating $20 million back in April that still hasn't been fully used months later.
Right says
- •Traffic stops are described by the administration as one of ICE's most effective tools for identifying and removing dangerous criminal aliens, and halting them entirely would undermine the mass deportation campaign voters supported.
- •Trump and DHS Secretary Mullin are described as being in agreement that vehicle stops must continue, with new safeguards, rather than being eliminated in response to a handful of incidents.
- •The new policy requiring at least one body-camera-equipped officer and specialized training per team is framed as a responsible middle path that preserves enforcement while adding accountability.
- •Officers face a documented surge in assaults and vehicle attacks against them, which is cited as justification for maintaining robust enforcement tools even as scrutiny increases.
Common Take
High Consensus- Two fatal ICE shootings in Texas and Maine, plus a death in Florida, occurred within about a week and none of the officers involved were wearing body cameras.
- Congress approved $20 million in April specifically to fund body cameras for ICE agents.
- Roughly half of ICE field offices currently have body cameras, with full nationwide deployment expected within about 60 days.
- The Department of Homeland Security Inspector General is investigating the Maine shooting.
The Arguments
Left argues
Trump personally overruled his own DHS Secretary's judgment that a pause was necessary after two fatal shootings within a week, prioritizing enforcement numbers and political optics over an internal safety assessment made by his own appointee.
Right counters
Mullin's pause was described by Homan as a temporary operational adjustment, not a permanent policy reversal, and Trump's intervention simply restored a core enforcement tool with new safeguards attached rather than ignoring the safety concern entirely.
Right argues
Traffic stops are one of ICE's most effective tools for identifying dangerous criminal aliens, and eliminating them entirely in response to a handful of incidents—amid a documented 1,300% rise in assaults and 3,300% rise in vehicle attacks against officers—would undermine both officer safety and the mass deportation mandate voters supported.
Left counters
Citing rising assaults against officers doesn't justify resuming stops without basic accountability measures already in place; the victims in Houston and Maine were not the violent threats that statistic implies, and witnesses dispute DHS's own justification for those shootings.
Left argues
Blaming the body-camera rollout delay on a Democratic-led shutdown ignores that Congress allocated $20 million specifically for this purpose back in April, months before the shutdown, and the deaths in Texas and Maine occurred precisely because officers involved had no cameras to verify DHS's claims.
Right counters
The administration points to real logistical hurdles—procurement, training, and distribution across 13,000 agents nationwide—and notes over half of field offices already have cameras with the rest coming within 60 days, showing genuine progress rather than stonewalling.
Right argues
The new policy requiring at least one body-camera-equipped officer and specialized training per team is a responsible middle path that preserves enforcement capacity while directly addressing the accountability gap exposed by the shootings.
Left counters
ICE's own agency sources admit the policy is functionally crippling because most officers still lack cameras, meaning the 'safeguard' either allows stops to continue unsafely in practice or halts them in effect—suggesting the policy is more rhetorical than substantive.
Left argues
The pattern of fatal shootings—two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, plus deaths in Texas, Maine, and Florida—shows a systemic problem with ICE's use of lethal force that predates this policy dispute and will persist regardless of the traffic-stop compromise reached.
Right counters
Individual incidents under investigation shouldn't be used to indict an entire enforcement strategy that Trump and Mullin agree remains essential; the administration's response—body cameras, training, operational justification requirements—directly targets the specific concerns raised without abandoning the broader mission.
Challenge Questions
These questions target genuine internal contradictions — meant to provoke honest reflection.
Right asks Left
“If the goal is genuine accountability rather than ending immigration enforcement altogether, why does the criticism focus on overturning Trump's decision to resume stops rather than on strengthening the body-camera and training requirements he ultimately approved?”
Left asks Right
“If body cameras are truly a top DHS priority and $20 million was allocated in April, why did it take two fatal shootings and a public outcry—rather than proactive deployment—to accelerate the rollout, and why is a shutdown that began after that funding was allocated being cited as the primary cause of delay?”
Outlier Report
Left Fringe
Progressive activists and organizations such as the ACLU, and some Democratic officials who call for abolishing ICE or ending vehicle stops altogether, represent roughly 20% of the left; most Democrats favor reform (body cameras, accountability) rather than elimination of enforcement tools.
Right Fringe
Hardline Trump loyalists and commentators who reject any restrictions, including body camera requirements, as unnecessary concessions represent roughly 20-25% of the right; most Republicans, including Trump himself in the end, accepted body-camera conditions as a reasonable compromise.
Noise Assessment
High social media amplification exists on both sides—viral witness videos and Trump's Truth Social posts drive outsized attention—but the underlying public sentiment is more moderate, with most Americans wanting both continued immigration enforcement and better accountability measures like body cameras.
Sources (14)
The administration is tormenting, and testing, a unique political culture
<p>Half of all <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/trump-ice-shootings-vehicle-stops" target="_blank">ICE</a> field offices across the U.S. now have body cameras for agents, with the rest expected to get them within 60 days, according to the Department of Homeland Security.</p><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>Calls for all agents to be outfitted with cameras have accelerated as a series of fatal shootings and other use-of-force <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/07/15/maine-killing-fatal-dhs-ice-shootings" target="_blank">incidents</a> have unfolded nationwide.</p><hr /><p><strong>The big picture: </strong>The push for ICE body cameras has been a years-long effort. But pressure for more scrutiny of agents' actions has been particularly strong since agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year and two more people were killed this month in Texas and Maine, where officers weren't wearing cameras.</p><ul><li>Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kristi-noem-orders-immediate-body-camera-deployment-minneapolis-federal-officers-after-deadly-shootings" target="_blank">ordered</a> immediate body camera use in Minneapolis in February, pledging to expand the technology nationwide. </li><li>Congress then budgeted an extra $20 million for DHS in April to provide body cameras to ICE agents.</li></ul><p><strong>Border czar Tom Homan</strong> said this week the agency is "moving as quickly as possible" and that "as soon as they had funding they bought them."</p><ul><li>ICE first tested the technology in <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-announces-use-body-worn-camera-new-pilot-program" target="_blank">2021</a> and by 2024 had deployed 1,600 cameras to agents.</li><li>In March, then-ICE director Todd Lyons <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IFKaoO34rY" target="_blank">told</a> Congress that about 3,000 out 13,000 agents had body cameras then, with 6,000 more on the way. He didn't share a breakdown of which field offices had them.</li></ul><p><strong>What they're saying:</strong> "ICE will ensure each arrest team has an individual wearing a body camera. Ensuring all of our ICE law enforcement officers have body cameras nationwide is a top priority for DHS," an agency spokesperson said.</p><ul><li>The agency said the recent federal government shutdowns slowed officials from getting cameras online more quickly.</li></ul><p><strong>The other side: </strong>Critics say ICE's camera rollout delays are unacceptable amid questions about agents' training and competency.</p><ul><li>"I think the blame on the shutdown is just ludicrous. They were given $20 million just for this purpose," Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), who represents the Houston area, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/u-rep-sylvia-garcia-blasts-222840930.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAD9QsRJp838izXprzrOTIRL6PW0CQ5ymJpKm02ViiIyY4AqKxAHm2IOdnP-A5yT5UWRiNJU9ztT4lQGPGu4NmsGzaltwuO-vXvzwwSKchAlMWXMfcumjzsrdKk6_BU90hbtzjovl63ZtqSMtgr4hg2nIr87X5pdnHZgDZ_8imVBk" target="_blank">said</a> after the ICE shooting there last week.</li></ul>
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/ice-traffic-stops-will-continue-after-lethal-shootings-but-only-under-certain-conditions.jpg?id=67494010&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C82%2C0%2C82" /><br /><br /><p>The two lethal shootings during federal immigration operations in the last couple of weeks have led to restrictions on traffic stops by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.</p><p>Initially the traffic stops were temporarily <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/ice-slams-the-brakes-on-vehicle-stops-nationwide-report" target="_blank">paused</a> after the shooting deaths of a Mexican migrant in Houston and a Colombian migrant in Maine.</p><p class="pull-quote">'Over half of all ICE field offices now do have body cameras, and the remainder of the field offices are expected within 60 days.' </p><p>President Donald Trump stepped in to order that the traffic stops <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-overturns-his-own-dhs-orders-ice-back-into-traffic-stops" target="_blank">continue</a> as part of his promise for mass deportations, but a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-ice-traffic-stops-are-back-but-there-are-some-big-changes" target="_blank">Daily Wire report</a> on Thursday indicated that new restrictions were approved.</p><p>Traffic stops will be allowed in operations where at least one officer had a body camera and one teammate had training in specialized prosecutions. In addition, the stop needs to have an "operational" justification. </p><p>Fox News' Bill Melugin <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2077830731200356494" target="_blank">said</a> his ICE sources confirmed the report. </p><p>In both recent lethal incidents, no officers were wearing body cameras. Officials explained that the rapid expansion of officers led to a shortage of cameras available in the field.</p><p>"Basically, it boils down to, unless someone has a body-worn camera, no vehicle stops can be made," one agency source said to the Daily Wire. "Since the majority of officers do not have body-worn cameras, hardly any stops will be made."</p><p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt admitted that the body camera rollout had faced difficulties.</p><p>"With respect to body cameras, I know there's been some questions about that in recent days. Over half of all ICE field offices now do have body cameras, and the remainder of the field offices are expected within 60 days," Leavitt said to reporters.</p><p>"It's been a slower rollout than we would have hoped, but that's because of the Democrats' decision to shut down DHS for several weeks," she added. "So, we expect to fully execute on the promise of body cams to all field offices across the country very soon."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/meth-substance-van-illegal-alien" target="_blank"><strong>Meth-like substance found in van of illegal alien killed by ICE, FBI says — but Democratic DA disputes</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube"> <span class="rm-shortcode" style="display: block; padding-top: 56.25%;"></span> </p><p>The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-was-caught-off-guard-by-dhs-move-to-halt-ice-vehicle-stops-3ede393e" target="_blank">reported</a> that the pause on traffic stops was made unilaterally by Markwayne Mullin, the secretary of Homeland Security, and angered the president.</p><p>"We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands," Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116923585931908111" target="_blank">wrote</a> in response on social media.</p><p>"The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won't happen on my watch," he added. "I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those Crime Stat Records coming!"</p><p><em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self"><em>Sign up here</em></a><em>!</em></p>
After a brief halt on traffic stops, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers received a directive Thursday to resume them, but with new restrictions in place. Sources familiar with the new orders told The Daily Wire that teams making traffic stops must have at least one officer with a body camera, a teammate with specialized ...
Trump called traffic stops one of ICE’s “most important and effective crime fighting tools,” one day after the DHS paused the tactic in the wake of two ICE-involved deadly shootings.
ICE agents will stop making most traffic stops, sources told multiple news outlets on Tuesday.
ICE officers can resume traffic stops under new guidance requiring at least one officer to wear a bodycam, ICE sources tell Fox News.
“The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done,” the president said.
<p>President <a href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" target="_blank">Trump</a>'s deportation campaign has expanded far beyond ICE, turning federal agents, state troopers, local police and even wildlife officers into a massive 50,000-person internal enforcement force, a new ACLU report says.</p><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>The aggressive expansion is blurring the lines between local public safety and federal immigration enforcement, fundamentally changing U.S. law enforcement — and raising civil rights concerns, the report says.</p><hr /><p><strong>The big picture:</strong> Neighborhood streets, roads, schools, worksites, hospitals, courts and wildlife areas have turned into enforcement zones, officials say.</p><ul><li>That blurring of enforcement lines often has made it<strong> </strong>harder for people to know who's stopping them, what authority they have and who can be held accountable.</li><li>Such confusion has been a backdrop to several violent incidents involving ICE agents this year, including four fatal shootings — two during the past week, in Houston and Biddeford, Maine.</li></ul><p><strong>By the numbers: </strong>The ACLU says more than 25,000 federal law enforcement officers outside ICE were diverted to immigration enforcement at various points during 2025, citing outside analyses based on government data. </p><ul><li>The report says that included an estimated 9,161 FBI personnel, or at least one in five FBI special agents.</li><li>An unprecedented $240 billion has been directed into immigration enforcement through congressional reconciliation bills since July 2025, as Trump has pushed to deport millions of unauthorized immigrants.</li><li>About 12,000<strong> </strong>new ICE agents were hired in record time in 2025.<strong> </strong></li></ul><p><strong>What they found: </strong>The ACLU reviewed 1,213 cases <strong>f</strong>rom January through December 2025 across Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and New Mexico, using public records, legal filings, news reports, visual evidence and congressional material.</p><ul><li>The ACLU found 375 incidents involving force or threatened force, including 241 involving physical force.</li><li>The report says agents pushed, shoved, tackled or pinned people 418 times, deployed chemical irritants 361 times, used stun guns 33 times and smashed vehicle windows 47 times.</li></ul><p><strong>Context: </strong>ICE suspended <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2026/07/14/ice-suspend-vehicle-stops-shootings-houston-maine" target="_blank">most vehicle stops</a> during enforcement operations nationwide after this week's fatal shootings, but Trump reversed that decision Wednesday, calling the tactic one of the agency's <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5969027-donald-trump-ice-traffic-stops/" target="_blank">"most important and effective"</a> tools.</p><p><strong>Zoom in:</strong> ICE is leveraging a war chest of more than $250 million to deputize state and local police into its deportation operations.</p><ul><li>The policy group <a href="https://www.fwd.us/news/ice-payouts/" target="_blank">FWD.us</a> says ICE has paid or promised $257 million to state and local agencies under what's known as 287(g) agreements, with incentive payments totaling more than <a href="https://www.fwd.us/news/ice-payouts/#:~:text=total%20over%20%2440%2C000%20per%20officer." target="_blank">$40,000 per participating officer </a>in some agencies. The group estimates total 2026 payouts could reach $1.4 billion to <a href="https://www.fwd.us/news/ice-payouts/#:~:text=equal%20%241.4%20to-,%242%20billion%20per%20year,-.%20With%20these%20larger" target="_blank">$2 billion.</a></li><li>State agencies such as the Florida Highway Patrol and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries now are conducting routine immigration sweeps, the ACLU found.</li></ul><p><strong>Zoom out:</strong> The scale of the deployment is creating a chaotic environment on U.S. streets.</p><ul><li>Federal agents are increasingly relying on masked operations, unmarked vehicles, and gear simply labeled "POLICE," making it difficult for the public to identify who is conducting the enforcement.</li><li>This tactic has led to confusion and eroded community trust in genuine local law enforcement, the ACLU says.</li></ul><p><strong>Caveat: </strong>The report doesn't specify how many arrests were made by non-ICE or non-Border Patrol agencies from January through December 2025.</p><p><strong>The other side: </strong>The White House referred questions to ICE.</p><ul><li>In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE is regularly audited and inspected by external agencies to ensure that all ICE facilities comply with national detention standards. </li><li>"All detainees are provided with proper meals, quality water, blankets, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers. ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens," a spokesperson said.</li><li>Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/28/exclusive-secretary-mullin-at-100-day-mark-at-dhs-deportations-are-way-up-2026-stats-set-to-outpace-well-past-2025-numbers/" target="_blank">Breitbart News</a> last month that DHS is expanding its plans for more local and state law enforcement departments to join enforcement partnerships with the federal government.</li><li>"When they partner with us, we reimburse. We'll reimburse you for equipment. We reimburse the time of the officer," he told the outlet.</li></ul><p><strong>Between the lines:</strong> The ACLU argues that the blurring of federal, state, and local police into one deportation force weakens Congress' ability to know which agency acted, who funded it, and who should answer for any abuses.</p><ul><li>Because the ICE and Customs and Border Patrol funding surge came largely through reconciliation, the ACLU argues, Congress made routine oversight harder by avoiding the usual annual appropriations process.</li></ul>
<p>Late Tuesday at the White House, a livid President <a href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" target="_blank">Trump</a> complained to advisers about the Department of Homeland Security's decision to pause the type of vehicle stops by ICE agents that had led to two fatal shootings in the past two weeks.</p><ul><li>The department's idea seemed to be that agents would get more training. But by Wednesday morning, Trump had sent a Truth Social post reversing the pause, leaving DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and border czar Tom Homan to try to explain.</li></ul><p><strong>Why it matters: </strong>The episode showed how the latest ICE shootings have revived a tense debate within the administration over how to balance increasing public pressure to stop the violence with Trump's desire for tough enforcement and more deportations.</p><hr /><p><strong>Zoom in:</strong> Trump's post came roughly 12 hours after Homan described the reasoning for the pause by telling reporters that ICE's "training curriculum for vehicle stops" was "quite extensive."</p><ul><li>At the time, he said Mullin would decide when to lift the pause in vehicle stops.</li></ul><p><strong>By Wednesday evening</strong>, the vehicle stops were back and Mullin and the White House were insisting they were "on the same page."</p><ul><li>"We want our ICE officers to have all options available to keep them safe while executing our mission of deporting as many illegal alien criminals from our country as possible," Mullin posted on X.</li></ul><p><strong>Zoom out:</strong> The recent shootings show how Mullin's handling of such incidents contrasts with that of his predecessor as DHS secretary, the often-embattled <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/kristi-noem-dhs-trump-inside-firing" target="_blank">Kristi Noem</a>.</p><ul><li>The initial pause on vehicle stops came soon after a plea from Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R), in light of the shooting of Colombian national Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine on Monday.</li><li>Collins and Maine Sen. Angus King (I) both said Mullin, a former Oklahoma senator, had been in frequent contact with them — a contrast to Noem, who was criticized by officials from both parties for being unresponsive to Congress.</li><li>Mullin also has avoided responding with the same fervor as Noem to use-of-force incidents involving ICE or Customs and Border Patrol agents. Noem often drew criticism by immediately defending officers before any investigations were done, in some cases insulting the victims.</li></ul><p><strong>Friction point: </strong>The most recent shootings came shortly after ICE conducted another surge in immigration arrests, reaching <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/01/us/trump-news" target="_blank">2,000 per day</a>, according to the New York Times.</p><ul><li>Use-of-force incidents have increased during such surges in places such as Chicago, where there was a fatal <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/09/14/illinois-transparent-probe-ice-shooting-franklin-park" target="_blank">shooting</a> and a woman survived being shot <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/marimar-martinez-shot-by-u-s-border-patrol-chicago-testify-capitol-hill/" target="_blank">five</a> times; and Minneapolis, where two <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2026/01/07/ice-agent-shooting-south-minneapolis" target="_blank">American</a> <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2026/01/24/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agent" target="_blank">citizens</a> were fatally shot.</li><li>White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportations-stephen-miller" target="_blank">set</a> a yet-to-be-reached goal of arresting 3,000 people a day last summer.</li><li>The current push to boost arrest numbers also means some ICE staffers are being asked to work seven-day weeks, at a time when new recruits are hitting the streets.</li></ul><p><strong>Mullin also has inherited</strong> the repercussions of a big hiring spree and training modifications imposed by Noem.</p><ul><li>The shooter in Maine was a new ICE recruit with prior law enforcement experience, as the Atlantic first reported and a source confirmed to Axios.</li><li>After congressional scrutiny of Noem's training curriculum, mostly from Democrats, ICE <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/06/ice-training-recruits-immigration-mullin-trump/" target="_blank">reverted</a> back to a longer training protocol.</li></ul><p><strong>What they're saying:</strong> "Secretary Mullin is working hard to implement the president's immigration enforcement agenda," White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said.</p><ul><li>"Thanks to President Trump and Secretary Mullin, the border is totally secure, dangerous illegal immigrants are being deported, and Americans are safer."</li></ul><p><strong>The other side:</strong> Trump's reversal of the vehicle-stop pause "could well lead to additional deaths, and I think the pause made a lot of sense to review the training and make sure the body cameras are fully deployed," King said.</p><ul><li>"So it's a mistake that may turn out to be a tragic mistake."</li></ul>
<p>President Trump said ICE should continue using traffic stops to arrest immigrants after a <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2026/07/14/ice-suspend-vehicle-stops-shootings-houston-maine" target="_blank">recent directive</a> suspended the tactic after two fatal shootings in Texas and Maine within a week.</p><p><strong>The big picture: </strong><a href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/donald-trump" target="_blank">Trump </a>wrote in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/%40realDonaldTrump/116923585931908111" target="_blank">Truth Social post</a> on Wednesday, "we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" </p><hr /><p><strong>Catch up quick: </strong>The Department of Homeland Security had directed <a href="https://www.axios.com/politics-policy/immigration" target="_blank">ICE</a> to halt vehicle stops until further notice, according to <a href="https://x.com/AlexisMcAdamsTV/status/2077399446703284642" target="_blank">a memo</a> obtained by Fox News. A White House official confirmed the memo to Axios.</p><ul><li>"Effective immediately, all ERO-initiated enforcement vehicle stops are suspended until further notice," per the DHS memo.</li><li>The pause was expected to remain in place while ICE provides additional training to officers on vehicle stop tactics, <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/2077041344803914083?s=20" target="_blank">several outlets reported</a>.</li></ul><p><strong>What they're saying:</strong> A DHS official, when asked by Axios, did not say whether the agency had reversed the directive. </p><ul><li>A screenshot of Trump's Truth Social post was posted on the DHS <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/2077403580298891391?s=20" target="_blank">X account</a>, however. The agency urged people to self-deport, adding "If you don't, we will find you, arrest you, and deport you."</li></ul><p><strong>The directive</strong> came after ICE agents fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, on Monday during an enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine.</p><ul><li>Last week, ICE agents killed Houston resident <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2026/07/08/ice-houston-shooting-immigration" target="_blank">Lorenzo Salgado Araujo</a>, 52, during an enforcement operation near downtown Houston.</li></ul><p><strong>Friction point:</strong> Neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero was the intended target of the operations.</p><ul><li>The killings have drawn scrutiny as <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2026/07/10/houston-ice-shooting-passengers-dispute-dhs-account" target="_blank">witnesses dispute official accounts </a>of what happened, similar to the <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/twin-cities/2026/07/14/feds-hand-over-shooting-evidence" target="_blank">fatal ICE shootings in Minnesota</a> earlier this year.</li></ul><p><strong>By the numbers:</strong> At least 22 people have been shot at by ICE agents since <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2026/07/13/ice-deaths-continue-to-climb-in-2026" target="_blank">President Trump returned to office</a>. Six people — including three U.S. citizens — have been killed, with nearly all the shootings involving officers firing at people in vehicles, per the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/us/ice-agents-traffic-stops.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>.</p>
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Donald Trump’s administration claims mission accomplished