ICE pauses most vehicle stops as pressure to arrest is blamed for fatal shootings

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The administration’s pressure to increase arrests has put officers under “too much stress,” sources said, after two men who weren’t initial ICE targets were killed in less than a week.

FBI investigators work the scene of ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, 2026.

An ICE officer making a traffic stop in Biddeford, Maine, shot and killed a man on Monday.Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images

July 14, 2026, 11:48 AM EDT / Updated July 14, 2026, 3:10 PM EDT

By Julia Ainsley, Laura Strickler, Suzanne Gamboa, Daniella Silva and Nicole Acevedo

ICE has issued a nationwide order to all officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official and two former senior DHS officials. The move comes after ICE officers fatally shot two men in less than a week in Maine and Texas.

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