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Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas.<\/p>\n

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Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told \u201cno more vehicle stops for now.\u201d The new directive has the potential to massively impact ICE\u2019s ability to make arrests as officers often prefer to catch targets through traffic stops where they are out of their homes, where illegal immigrants could have access to weapons and where officers generally don\u2019t need judicial warrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumbers are going down, we can\u2019t do sh**,\u201d an agency source fumed.<\/p>\n

The pause 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.<\/p>\n

Maine Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him that the man who was shot was not the person ICE was trying to arrest, according to CNN. King made the statement while walking back an earlier statement he said Mullin made that the deceased man was ICE\u2019s intended target.<\/p>\n

In a statement Monday, an ICE spokesperson said the driver, who was shot and killed, \u201cattempted to flee\u201d and that the officer who fired their weapon was \u201cfearing for public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries,\u201d ICE said.<\/p>\n

ICE did not claim that the man shot and killed by officers tried to hit them with his vehicle and emphasized that the incident is still under investigation. The deceased man\u2019s identity has yet to be released.<\/p>\n

Last Tuesday, an ICE officer in Houston fatally shot Mexican illegal immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while conducting a vehicle stop. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Araujo wasn\u2019t their original target, but claimed that he \u201cweaponized\u201d his vehicle and tried to plow down an officer, prompting one to fire \u201cin self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anti-ICE protesters have taken to the streets in Texas and Maine to express their outrage over the latest shootings. Demonstrators attempted to storm Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins\u2019 office Monday, shouting \u201cVote her out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DHS didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas.Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told \u201cno more vehicle stops for now.\u201d The new directive has the potential to massively impact ICE\u2019s ability to make arrests as officers often prefer to catch targets through traffic stops where they are out of their homes, where illegal immigrants could have access to weapons and where officers generally don\u2019t need judicial warrants.\u201cNumbers are going down, we can\u2019t do sh**,\u201d an agency source fumed.The pause 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.Maine Sen. Angus King (I-ME) said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him that the man who was shot was not the person ICE was trying to arrest, according to CNN. King made the statement while walking back an earlier statement he said Mullin made that the deceased man was ICE\u2019s intended target.In a statement Monday, an ICE spokesperson said the driver, who was shot and killed, \u201cattempted to flee\u201d and that the officer who fired their weapon was \u201cfearing for public safety.\u201d\u201cThe driver of the vehicle was struck, and emergency services were immediately contacted. He passed away from his injuries,\u201d ICE said.ICE did not claim that the man shot and killed by officers tried to hit them with his vehicle and emphasized that the incident is still under investigation. The deceased man\u2019s identity has yet to be released.Last Tuesday, an ICE officer in Houston fatally shot Mexican illegal immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo while conducting a vehicle stop. 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Susan Collins\u2019 office Monday, shouting \u201cVote her out.\u201dDHS didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\nEXCLUSIVE: ICE Orders Agents To Cease All Vehicle Stops After Recent Shootings - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1235\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EXCLUSIVE: ICE Orders Agents To Cease All Vehicle Stops After Recent Shootings - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Federal immigration officers across the country have been told to stop pulling over vehicles after recent shootings in Maine and Texas.Three Homeland Security sources told The Daily Wire Tuesday that they were told \u201cno more vehicle stops for now.\u201d The new directive has the potential to massively impact ICE\u2019s ability to make arrests as officers often prefer to catch targets through traffic stops where they are out of their homes, where illegal immigrants could have access to weapons and where officers generally don\u2019t need judicial warrants.\u201cNumbers are going down, we can\u2019t do sh**,\u201d an agency source fumed.The pause 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.Maine Sen. 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