The new directive has the potential to massively impact ICE’s ability to make arrests.
By Catholics for Catholics
In a pivotal change in the way they do their policing, immigration agents across the nation have been instructed to avoid stopping vehicles after recent shootings in Texas and Maine.
Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were instructed “no more vehicle stops for now.” The new command has the potential to tremendously impact ICE’s ability to make arrests, as officers often select to catch targets during traffic stops rather than at suspects’ homes, where illegal immigrants could be armed.
In addition, officers also need a judicial warrant to enter a suspect’s home without their permission, but no such limitations exist for traffic stops.
“Numbers are going down, we can’t do sh*t,” an agency source bristled.
An ICE spokesperson said the agency is “always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets,” adding that “We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics.”
The change comes a day after a 26-year-old Colombian man was fatally shot by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers as they were trying to pull over his vehicle in Biddeford, Maine.
Angus King (I-ME), the senator from Maine said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the Colombian man was not the individual ICE was trying to arrest, according to CNN. King was walking back a previous statement where he claimed that Mullin said the deceased man was ICE’s target.
ICE said in a statement Monday the driver who was shot and killed, “attempted to flee” and that the officer who fired their weapon was “fearing for public safety.”
“The driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries,” ICE said.
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