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ICE Keeps Shooting People. Here's a Way Congress Can Rein It In.

Giving people a pathway to sue federal immigration officials for violating constitutional rights is one way Congress can help hold the rogue agency accountable.

Autumn Billings | 7.15.2026 5:04 PM

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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Tuesday to temporarily halt vehicle stops in response to two fatal shootings less than a week apart. 

The DHS originally planned to keep the directive in place until ICE officers receive additional training on conducting vehicle stops, reports CBS News. But some exceptions apply: "ICE will continue conducting vehicle stops only for those considered to be the most egregious targets with serious or violent criminal histories," according to Fox News. 

Critics of the sudden change argue the new policy will lower ICE's arrest and removal rate, which rose to over 10,000 arrests in just five days at the end of June. President Donald Trump contradicted the order on Wednesday, calling traffic stops "one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools." He ordered ICE to "go back and do your very important job" in a Truth Social post, saying the policy, supported by "Radical Left Dumocrats" wouldn't happen on his watch, apparently overturning the pause to vehicle stops by ICE.

But others on the right........

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