Posted on 07/14/2026 10:45:43 AM PDT by DFG
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been ordered to temporarily stop conducting vehicle stops in the wake of two deadly shootings in Texas and Maine, sources told ABC News.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin gave the directive, a law enforcement source told ABC News, after he spoke with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who said she urged Mullin to "cease all non-urgent vehicle stops."
In most cases, ICE officers will stop a target on the street once they leave their house or office, but ICE will still use vehicle stops in cases involving the most dangerous targets, according to a source.
Multiple sources said the pause is temporary and that ICE officers will receive new training on vehicle stops.
On Monday, 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Biddeford, Maine, after agents tried to stop the car he was driving, according to Sen. Angus King, I-Maine.
Guerrero, a Colombian national, was not the target of the operation and ICE agents had been given a final order for another man they were targeting to be removed from the U.S., King told ABC News.
An ICE spokesperson said that the agency was “conducting targeted surveillance on the last known address of an illegal alien with a final order of removal," and when an “illegal alien departed the residence in a vehicle,” ICE agents “attempted to conduct a vehicle stop.”
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Ice should increase stops. Get these killers off our streets.
‘Sources’..??
Thats the best kind
Posted on 7/14/2026, 12:07:39 PM by dennisw
This announcement only encourages protestors and other resistors to get more violent. It puts ICE officers under a higher level of danger.
No one is willing to do the hard work voters elected Trump to do. This bitch said nothing when Biden was letting millions flood the country, says nothing about the lawlessness and disease they bring, and nothing about American’s killed by the invaders.
Bummer. I just feel badly for the officers who are forced to dispatch these vermin’s who are so fervently just asking for it
Does this mean US citizens don’t have to pull over for law enforcement as well?
If willing, a Sheriff could deputize them.
These were not targeted pursuits of known criminals, merely identified behavior of crowded cars attempting to escape when the blue light and siren went off!
Don’t stop them. Obliterate them with mini guns.
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