ICE pauses most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in Maine and Texas

ICE has ordered a temporary nationwide halt on most vehicle stops following two fatal shootings involving ICE agents — one in Maine and another in Texas — with exemptions for serious criminal targets. DHS says the pause is brief and a leadership review, not a policy shift, while critics warn quotas and policing tactics are at issue. The Maine case involved a 26-year-old Colombian national identified by locals as Joan Sebastian Guerrero; the Texas case involved Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, killed after a stop in Houston. Protests have followed, and a watchdog investigation has opened into the shooting, while DHS notes that deportations will continue during the pause.