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The Trump administration has ordered that agents within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) temporarily suspend \u201cnon-urgent\u201d vehicle stops, following a series of fatal shootings by federal agents, including two killings in Texas and Maine this month.<\/p>\n

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued the order on Tuesday. The order will supposedly affect ICE agents across the entire U.S., who will also receive additional training about when such stops should occur, according to ABC News. <\/em><\/p>\n

Several news outlets reported on the order, although the agency refused to elaborate on the specifics of the policy in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets. We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics,\u201d the statement read. <\/p>\n

Vehicle stops are used only against \u201cdangerous targets,\u201d an agency source told ABC News<\/em>, though the latest shootings involved individuals who did not appear to fit that description. <\/p>\n

On Monday, a man in Biddeford, Maine, was shot and killed by ICE agents while he was inside his vehicle. DHS tried to justify their action by saying the agents feared \u201cfor public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man, identified as 26-year-old Colombian national Johan Sebasti\u00e1n Duran Guerrero, was authorized to work in the U.S. and had a valid Social Security number, according to immigrant rights groups. Among the witnesses to his killing was his 3-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

Last week, an ICE agent shot and killed another man in his vehicle, identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, near Houston, Texas. Following Salgado Araujo\u2019s death, DHS claimed the agent had shot him in self-defense, but witnesses disputed that narrative. <\/p>\n

Salgado Araujo, who was Mexican, had lived in the Houston area for more than three decades. <\/p>\n

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The idea that ICE will temporarily refrain from conducting most forms of traffic stops is peculiar, as the agency is already restricted from enforcing local traffic laws. According to ICE procedures, agents can only demand a driver pull their vehicle over and\/or exit if there is a \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d that someone is actively committing a crime or is subject to deportation. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Reasonable suspicion\u2019 is a legal standard with specific guidelines, not just an officer\u2019s personal opinion about what might be \u2018suspicious,’\u201d reads an explainer from the American Immigration Council. <\/p>\n

Neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero were the intended targets of ICE agents, so it is unclear what \u201creasonable suspicion\u201d warranted their pursuit, let alone their being shot and killed. <\/p>\n

Nicole Melaku, executive director for the National Partnership for New Americans, reacted to the killings by calling for Congress to cut funding for ICE.<\/p>\n

\u201cAn untrained, violent agency \u2014 flush with billions of our dollars \u2014 meets criticism with lies, operates without accountability, and robs communities of their breadwinners and neighbors. \u2026 Alongside Trump\u2019s secret police, ICE\u2019s sprawling detention camps are killing more people than ever before,\u201d Melaku said in a press statement shared with Truthout<\/em>.<\/p>\n

She added:<\/p>\n

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ICE does not protect our neighborhoods; it racially profiles and terrorizes them. ICE operations have made us less safe, and they will keep doing so until Congress intervenes and divests from a nationwide machine of cruelty.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cICE must not be allowed to investigate itself or control the public narrative surrounding a death in which its personnel or operations were involved,\u201d said Maine Immigrants\u2019 Rights Coalition in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining alone won\u2019t fix Trump\u2019s cruel mass deportation agenda,\u201d read a Bluesky post from America\u2019s Voice, an immigrant rights organization.<\/p>\n

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