White House overturns DHS halt to ICE traffic stops despite killings of two men

Move comes after Trump rebuked his own homeland security department and insisted ICE maintain policy The White House overturned a one-day old homeland security department (DHS) memo that said they would be halting traffic stops in the wake of recent stops that left two men killed in the space of a week on Wednesday morning, hours after Donald Trump insisted ICE keep making them. On Tuesday, federal officers across the US had been told to temporarily stop pulling drivers over . That directive came after ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on 7 July and Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine on Monday. Both men were unarmed, neither was the intended target of the operation that killed him, and in both cases the agents involved wore no body camera to record what had happened. The president’s Wednesday declaration made no mention of either killing. In a Truth Social post, Trump insisted that “we must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands.” He added that the partial rein-in “won’t happen on my watch”. The whipl