Trump administration orders ICE to halt traffic stops after Maine shooting, US media reports

The Trump administration has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt the use of traffic stops to detain immigrants nationwide, according to France 24, citing US media reports. The move came a day after an ICE agent shot and killed a Colombian driver in Maine. As France 24 tells it, that death followed the killing of a motorist by an ICE officer in Texas a week earlier, renewing criticism of the agency's enforcement operations.

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