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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Trump’s switch on ending ICE traffic stops was because his TV friends were mad about the change: report

President Donald Trump reversed the Department of Homeland Security’s position on Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s traffic stops after he received a wave of backlash from MAGA allies on cable news, according to a report.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin ordered the pause in tactics “effective immediately” earlier this week, advising federal agents to “prioritize other existing operational methods” after the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 28-year-old Colombian man living in Maine, and the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old father of three children in Houston.

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