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Less than a full day after several news outlets reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would temporarily suspend agents from conducting traffic stops across the country, President Donald Trump demanded that the agency continue engaging in the practice.

ICE agents have shot and killed two people while conducting traffic stops during this month alone.

In a Truth Social post on Wednesday morning, Trump said the suspension of ICE traffic stops “won’t happen on my watch.”

“The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done,” Trump wrote, disregarding the two men killed at the hands of ICE agents over the past two weeks.

“We CANNOT give up one of ICE’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP,” the president added.

ICE Temporarily Pauses Traffic Stops After Fatal Shootings in Texas, Maine

He then advised the agency to be “judicious, fair and smart,” and concluded by telling ICE agents “you are loved and respected in America.”

That statement is inconsistent with recent polling data.

According to a YouGov survey published in........

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