{"id":10696,"date":"2026-07-19T16:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10696"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:48:46","slug":"trump-reverses-ice-traffic-stop-suspension-after-maine-houston-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=10696","title":{"rendered":"Trump reverses ICE traffic stop suspension after Maine, Houston shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/3FGbGT3F52G0Ncgu5oHSfRRuqRA=\/0x189:2048x1341\/1366x768\/2026\/07\/15\/1784132080150.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Trump said ICE should continue using traffic stops to arrest immigrants after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/houston\/2026\/07\/14\/ice-suspend-vehicle-stops-shootings-houston-maine\" target=\"_blank\">recent directive<\/a> suspended the tactic after two fatal shootings in Texas and Maine within a week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The big picture: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Trump <\/a>wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/%40realDonaldTrump\/116923585931908111\" target=\"_blank\">Truth Social post<\/a> on Wednesday, &#8220;we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.&#8217;s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!&#8221; <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Catch up quick: <\/strong>The Department of Homeland Security had directed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politics-policy\/immigration\" target=\"_blank\">ICE<\/a> to halt vehicle stops until further notice, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexisMcAdamsTV\/status\/2077399446703284642\" target=\"_blank\">a memo<\/a> obtained by Fox News. A White House official confirmed the memo to Axios.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Effective immediately, all ERO-initiated enforcement vehicle stops are suspended until further notice,&#8221; per the DHS memo.<\/li>\n<li>The pause was expected to remain in place while ICE provides additional training to officers on vehicle stop tactics, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BillMelugin_\/status\/2077041344803914083?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">several outlets reported<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What they&#8217;re saying:<\/strong> A DHS official, when asked by Axios, did not say whether the agency had reversed the directive. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A screenshot of Trump&#8217;s Truth Social post was posted on the DHS <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/2077403580298891391?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">X account<\/a>, however. The agency urged people to self-deport, adding &#8220;If you don&#8217;t, we will find you, arrest you, and deport you.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The directive<\/strong> came after ICE agents fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero, 26, on Monday during an enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week, ICE agents killed Houston resident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/houston\/2026\/07\/08\/ice-houston-shooting-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Salgado Araujo<\/a>, 52, during an enforcement operation near downtown Houston.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friction point:<\/strong> Neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero was the intended target of the operations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The killings have drawn scrutiny as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/houston\/2026\/07\/10\/houston-ice-shooting-passengers-dispute-dhs-account\" target=\"_blank\">witnesses dispute official accounts <\/a>of what happened, similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/twin-cities\/2026\/07\/14\/feds-hand-over-shooting-evidence\" target=\"_blank\">fatal ICE shootings in Minnesota<\/a> earlier this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>By the numbers:<\/strong> At least 22 people have been shot at by ICE agents since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/dallas\/2026\/07\/13\/ice-deaths-continue-to-climb-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\">President Trump returned to office<\/a>. Six people \u2014 including three U.S. citizens \u2014 have been killed, with nearly all the shootings involving officers firing at people in vehicles, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/14\/us\/ice-agents-traffic-stops.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump said ICE should continue using traffic stops to arrest immigrants after a recent directive suspended the tactic after two fatal shootings in Texas and Maine within a week. The big picture: Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, &#8220;we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.&#8217;s most important and effective Crime Fighting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.axios.com\/3FGbGT3F52G0Ncgu5oHSfRRuqRA=\/0x189:2048x1341\/1366x768\/2026\/07\/15\/1784132080150.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}