After a brief halt on traffic stops, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers received a directive Thursday to resume them, but with new restrictions in place.
Sources familiar with the new orders told The Daily Wire that teams making traffic stops must have at least one officer with a body camera, a teammate with specialized prosecutions training, and an “operational” justification for the stop. The short suspension on traffic stops came just one day after the latest fatal ICE-involved shooting of a Colombian migrant driver in Maine on Monday.
The order also followed an ICE-involved shooting just days earlier in Houston, where an officer conducting a traffic stop fatally shot a Mexican illegal immigrant.
While vehicle stops are back on, the new restrictions still make it difficult for officers to make arrests since ICE hasn’t distributed body cameras yet to all its officers after receiving funding from Congress.
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When the pause began, ICE sources fumed that it would restrict their ability to make arrests.
“Numbers are going down, we can’t do sh*t,” one source said.
By Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he wanted the suspension to end, saying the change would play into the hands of criminals and Democrats.
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