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(174,468 posts) Wed Jul 15, 2026, 08:10 AM 11 hrs ago

Trump: ICE should continue traffic stops after recent shootings, seeming to contradict new policy

Source: AP

Updated 7:51 AM EDT, July 15, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.

Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is “doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.”

The Republican president says to remove criminals he says were let into the country under the previous Democratic administration “we must be strong, tough and smart and we CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump says, “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”

The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency’s enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-enforcement-deaths-traffic-stops-3d614361d8354474bc4eb8e37ec26b28

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Trump: ICE should continue traffic stops after recent shootings, seeming to contradict new policy (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 11 hrs ago OP

Sanctioned murder by the President of the United States Bengus81 11 hrs ago #1

Here is Trumps tweet---and Trump continues with calling Democrats names like a school-yard bully!! riversedge 10 hrs ago #2

That didn't even take 12 hours. twodogsbarking 9 hrs ago #3

Of course. To end the deadly stops would be admitting wrong. pat_k 8 hrs ago #4

Two innocent people murdered in one week, Hey Joe 8 hrs ago #5

White House overturns DHS halt to ICE traffic stops despite killings of two men Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 6 hrs ago #6

Bengus81

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1. Sanctioned murder by the President of the United States

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 08:29 AM

11 hrs ago

And Repulicants in Congress sit with hands in their laps.

riversedge

(82,558 posts)

2. Here is Trumps tweet---and Trump continues with calling Democrats names like a school-yard bully!!

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Wed Jul 15, 2026, 09:17 AM

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twodogsbarking

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3. That didn't even take 12 hours.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 10:14 AM

9 hrs ago

pat_k

(14,772 posts)

4. Of course. To end the deadly stops would be admitting wrong.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 10:41 AM

8 hrs ago

And admitting wrong is something the psychopathic malignant narcissist NEVER does. Not once. Not ever.

Hey Joe

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5. Two innocent people murdered in one week,

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 10:56 AM

8 hrs ago

But, “Ice is doing a great job “ !?!?!?
The more he fails, the greater the success!!
Iran, ICE, foreign policy, reflecting pool, cost of living……

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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6. White House overturns DHS halt to ICE traffic stops despite killings of two men

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 12:34 PM

6 hrs ago

The White House overturned a one-day old homeland security department (DHS) memo that said they would be halting traffic stops in the wake of recent stops that left two men killed in the space of a week on Wednesday morning, hours after Donald Trump insisted ICE keep making them.

Federal officers across the US had been told to temporarily stop pulling drivers over on Tuesday. That directive came after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on 7 July and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine on Monday. Both men were unarmed, neither was the intended target of the operation that killed him, and in both cases the agents involved wore no body camera to record what happened.

The president’s Wednesday declaration made no mention of either killing when he countermanded the order. In a Truth Social post, he insisted that “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.” He added that the partial rein in “won’t happen on my watch”.

The whiplash from the post initially rebuked his own homeland security department, which had just spent a day trying to contain the fallout from back-to-back killings. Trump used the moment to credit ICE with falling crime rates, repeated his inflated claim that “25,000,000 people” crossed the border unchecked under Joe Biden, and instructed agents to “keep those Crime Stat Records coming”. He concluded by telling officers they are “loved and respected in America” though no reassurance was offered to the families of the men they killed.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/white-house-overturns-dhs-halt-to-ice-traffic-stops-despite-killings-of-two-men/ar-AA27YbF4

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