Trump: ICE should continue traffic stops after recent shootings, seeming to contradict new policy - AP News
President Trump has publicly opposed an ICE plan to suspend vehicle stops following a series of fatal encounters. The administration is now signaling that enforcement tactics will continue despite safety concerns and recent deaths.
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This highlights a direct conflict between executive policy directives and operational safety protocols within federal immigration enforcement.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to keep pulling over vehicles, signaling his opposition Wednesday to plans announced just a day earlier to suspend most traffic stops following another string of fatal shootings.
It’s not clear whether ICE will quickly reverse course and resume most stops, which have been a key tool in Trump’s immigration crackdown .
Ending those stops, Trump wrote, would be “playing right into the criminal’s hands.”
“We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump wrote Wednesday on his social media site.
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