Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is "doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.
76% : Seeming to contradict a new policy, President Donald Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is "doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.
52% : " The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, said in a post on X that agents were surveilling an address for a person with a final order of removal from the country.
52% : " Boucher said he saw an ICE officer bring a medical bag to where the man was lying before an ambulance and fire truck arrived.
51% : During the five-day period at the end of June, ICE arrested more than 10,000 people.
50% : " The Republican president says to remove criminals he says were let into the country under the previous Democratic administration "we must be strong, tough and smart and we CANNOT give up one of ICE's most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!"
50% : Hundreds of protesters also gathered Tuesday outside an ICE detention center in Scarborough, just up the coast between Biddeford and Portland.
50% : We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics," an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.
48% : "I've said this for a long time, ICE and Trump -- they need to call ICE back," the governor said Tuesday.
47% : " Healey's comments on Tuesday echoed those she made after ICE agents shot and killed Good and Pretti in Minnesota earlier this year.
47% : Hundreds of Maine ICE arrests since Trump's return ICE had a significant presence in Maine earlier this year, which prompted several protests.
47% : ICE arrested 546 people in Maine between the start of Trump's second term and March 11, 2026, the most recent data available, according to ICE arrest data provided to the University of California, Berkeley Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the AP.
45% : The policy change came after the ICE shootings in Maine and Houston.
43% : When ICE tried to stop a vehicle driven by someone coming from that address, the "vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon," the department said.
43% : " She reiterated that as the state's former attorney general, she used to work with federal agencies including ICE, but drew a distinction between "put[ting] away bad guys" and "what is happening right now.
43% : Democrats seeking to unseat Collins in November sought Tuesday to connect her with ICE's methods, which have drawn public scrutiny and derision.
42% : Matthew Felling, a spokesperson for Maine Sen. Angus King, said the senator's office was also told by the Department of Homeland Security that ICE was suspending stops.
41% : A handful of pro-ICE and pro-Trump protesters demonstrated across the street.
39% : Deadly ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine The man who was killed in Biddeford, Maine, was identified as Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old native of Colombia.
37% : " The protesters condemned ICE's actions and called for change.
37% : Collins later said in a statement that although ICE needs to improve, eliminating the agency would make the nation less safe.
36% : A Homeland Security spokesperson said at the time that some Maine arrests were of people "convicted of horrific crimes" including aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
35% : " The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency's enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.
35% : " John Sandweg, who was acting director at ICE, which is part of DHS, during the Obama administration, estimated recently that there have been roughly 18 traffic-stop shootings during the Trump immigration crackdown.
35% : Protest in Boston after Maine shooting Dozens gathered Tuesday night on the steps of the Boston Public Library, similarly rallying against ICE following the deadly shooting in Maine.
35% : Among them are how close the officer was to the vehicle when they fired, whether officers told Durán Guerrero to stop, and why ICE believes he had put the public in danger.
34% : Prior to the brief ICE statement on the incident, Maine U.S. Sen. Angus King said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the officer opened fire after the man tried to use his vehicle as a weapon against ICE agents in Biddeford, a coastal city roughly 15 miles (24 kilometers) southwest of Portland.
33% : " Anti-ICE protesters gather near the scene in Biddeford Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Biddeford on Monday night to wave anti-ICE signs and call for the agency to be abolished.
33% : Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who is vying for Collins' seat, called the ICE officers at the shooting "thugs" during a vigil Tuesday evening in Lewiston.
32% : "We are here to say that we absolutely will not stand for this, and that all of Boston and all of Massachusetts stands against ICE terror.
32% : " "How is it that you have an individual shot dead in that manner, in front of his wife, his child, and all ICE can say is, 'Sorry, we got the wrong guy.'
30% : " President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, including the one in Maine on Monday, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.
27% : Trump administration orders ICE to suspend most vehicle stops after deadly shootings On Tuesday, people familiar with the decision said Trump administration officials told ICE to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week.
26% : A recent uptick in Trump's immigration crackdown On July 7, an ICE officer fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, of Houston, after federal agents driving unmarked vehicles pursued him while he was taking his construction crew to a job site.
24% : "I watched a wife fall to her knees looking at her husband's dead body on the ground," Hayes told the AP as she held a piece of cardboard with "No ICE Stop ICE" written on it.
20% : Questions surround the shooting in Maine Durán Guerrero's shooting marked at least the ninth time ICE has used deadly force since Trump began his immigration crackdown.
10% : " Petro, who has openly quarreled with Trump, urged Trump to provide an explanation and accused ICE officers of treating Durán Guerrero as "an inferior being without rights.

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