Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops after recent shootings

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/ice-immigration-enforcement-deaths-traffic-stops-3d614361d8354474bc4eb8e37ec26b28

Trump: ICE should continue traffic stops after recent shootings, seeming to contradict new policy
Updated 6:51 AM CDT, July 15, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.

Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is “doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done.”

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!” Trump says, “Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.”

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.

In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said.

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[spanone]

1. He's a rancid piece of shit.

[dalton99a]

2. The traitor loves to kill Americans.

[Solly Mack]

6. He is.

[sop]

3. All part of his plan to foment civil disturbances so he can send in the troops, create more violence, then declare

martial law in time for the November elections. Trump won't go quietly.

[dalton99a]

5. Like every self-respecting looter, Trump thrives on chaos.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. More pretend facts and outright lies

by the desperate wanna be tough guy.

[Solly Mack]

7. Go forth and KILL! KILL! KILL!

[Grim Chieftain]

8. Don't you just love the way the guy with thirty-four felonies to his name

and a conviction for sexual assault talks about cutting down on crime? Wow. What a leader.

[purr-rat beauty]

9. Criminals?

Most every death has not been a Criminal!

Have ICE go into the gang controlled sections of a city...see how that works out

[dalton99a]

10. They don't dare venture into where the real criminals live

[kentuck]

11. Of course, he doesn't want anyrestraints on ICE until after the election...

...at a minimum.

They are part of his election plans.

[Wiz Imp]

12. If Joe Biden "allowed 25 million people to pour into our country, unchecked"

then why was population growth in Trump's first term significantly higher than under Biden? And growth during the second term has stayed at the same level as it ended under Biden? Where was this spike of 25 million under Biden? (Hint: it doesn't exist because it didn't happen)

US Population Growth by Year
2017 = 0.79%
2018 = 0.71%
2019 = 0.66%
2020 = 0.49%
2021 = 0.31%
2022 = 0.38%
2023 = 0.50%
2024 = 0.53%
2025 = 0.52%
2026 = 0.51%

https://www.macrotrends.net/datasets/global-metrics/countries/usa/united-states/population