Trump says ICE should continue traffic stops, contradicting new ban

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement should keep carrying out traffic stops, even after the agency moved a day earlier to suspend the practice. As France 24 tells it, that suspension followed the fatal shooting of a Colombian driver by an ICE agent in Maine, and the killing of another motorist in Texas by immigration officers last week. Trump's stance directly cuts against the newly announced ban, leaving the agency's policy on vehicle stops in open contradiction.

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