{"id":1112,"date":"2026-07-14T16:43:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:43:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:43:40","slug":"ice-orders-agents-to-halt-car-stops-after-request-from-susan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1112","title":{"rendered":"ICE Orders Agents to Halt Car Stops After Request From Susan Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday ordered its agents to temporarily halt most car stops following two fatal shootings in Houston and Maine, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1110\">\u2018This Was a Black Eye\u2019: Progressives Face Reckoning Over Graham Platner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision comes just one day after an ICE agent <span><u>fatally shot<\/u><\/span> Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a Colombian national, in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal shooting involving an ICE agent in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>Agents will continue such stops when trying to serve criminal warrants on a person inside a vehicle, <span><u>CNN reported<\/u><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who oversees ICE, for the change following Monday morning\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the investigation of the Biddeford shooting is not yet complete, it raises sufficient critical questions that I spoke with DHS Secretary Mullin last night and urged him to cease all non-urgent vehicle stops,\u201d Collins said in a statement Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1109\">Kathy Hochul Signs First Statewide Moratorium on Data Centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ICE refused to confirm the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets,\u201d a spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement. \u201cWe will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DHS publicly acknowledged the fatal shooting in Maine nearly 12 hours after it happened, stating that ICE agents were conducting a targeted surveillance operation on the last known address of an immigrant \u201cwith a final order of removal\u201d and had tried to stop a driver leaving the home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle attempted to flee the scene and, fearing for public safety, an officer discharged his weapon,\u201d the department wrote in a statement on X.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Guerrero nor Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the man fatally shot in Houston last week, was a direct target of ICE operations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=1107\">The Bizarre Court Battle Trapping Trump\u2019s Voter Database<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision comes the day after an ICE agent fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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