At least seven people were shot dead during immigration enforcement operations since January 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

At least seven people were shot dead during immigration enforcement operations since January 2025. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday suspended vehicle stops related to immigration enforcement, two sources said, after agents fatally shot two men six days apart.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has temporarily instructed officers to refrain from making traffic-stop arrests in most cases, according to several people with knowledge of the directive, a policy shift spurred by a pair of fatal shootings over the past week. The pause comes as the Trump administration scrambles to respond to the incidents in Houston last week and in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, in which officers fired into vehicles and killed immigrants from Mexico and Colombia, respectively. Three former federal immigration officials said they were informed by current Department of Homeland Security officials of the pause — which one person said covers vehicle stops and pertains to officers within ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. “Guidance was sent nationwide from ICE HQ — no vehicle interactions whatsoever,” said one former official, who like the others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private communications. Specifics of the pause were not immediately…

HOUSTON (AP) — Federal officials are refusing to release the name of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who fatally shot a Mexican man during a traffic stop in Houston, and scrutiny of the shooting is growing after authorities said the man killed was not the person ICE was trying to find. The shooting in […]