Trump: ICE will not stop traffic stops despite fatal shootings in Maine and Texas

U.S. President Donald Trump rejected the immigration agency's decision to suspend traffic stops after two people were killed by ICE agents in separate incidents within a week.

Trump: ICE will not stop traffic stops despite fatal shootings in Maine and Texas

U.S. President Donald Trump rejected the immigration agency's decision to suspend its traffic stops after two people were killed by ICE agents in separate incidents within less than a week.

The Department of Homeland Security temporarily halted the road checks of the federal agency the day after a Colombian man was shot and killed in Maine while driving his car.

The previous week, a Mexican man was killed in Texas while driving his van.

"We cannot abandon one of the most important and effective tools ICE has in the fight against crime: TRAFFIC STOPS!", the American president wrote on his Truth Social network this morning.

"The moment we do, we will be playing exactly into the criminals' game. The radical Left Dumocrats would love this to happen, but it will not happen under my presidency. ICE, act with sharpness, justice and intelligence and return to your very important work", he continued.

Trump's immigration adviser, Tom Homan, confirmed to reporters at the White House yesterday that a "temporary pause" is being applied to traffic stops, while affirming that the method is effective and will resume.

Heavily armed ICE agents, often with covered faces, have become the focus of fierce criticism across the country because of methods regarded as aggressive. Among other incidents, they caused the deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis in January.

Rights organizations identified the victim of Monday's shooting in Biddeford, Maine, as Juan Sebastián Guerrero, 26, a delivery driver from Colombia who held a U.S. work permit and lived in the country with his wife and their three-year-old daughter.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro characterized this death as "murder".

In last week's shooting incident in Texas, immigration authorities claimed that Lorenzo Salgado, 52, attempted to strike an ICE agent with his vehicle, an account that multiple witnesses dispute.

Source: in.gr

Source: In.gr