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President Trump woke up this morning with an urgent message for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers deployed on U.S. streets: They were to pay no mind to the internal memo, issued barely a day earlier, telling them to suspend vehicle stops amid a public outcry over two fatal shootings by ICE officers in less than a week. Trump was issuing his own orders.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.\u2019s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!,\u201d the president wrote on his Truth Social network. \u201cOnce we do, we are playing right into the criminal\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president overruled his own administration after getting furious pushback from his MAGA base over the ICE order suspending most vehicle stops. White House officials told us that Trump had heard a litany of complaints from hard-line allies over the past day. The final straw, one official and one outside adviser told us, was the cable-news segments that Trump watched this morning. The negative coverage from right-wing media was accompanied by a torrent of public and private criticism from figures including the MAGA influencer Tomi Lahren, former Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, and the War Room<\/em> podcaster Steve Bannon. Trump, one official told us, ultimately concluded that ICE abandoning traffic stops now would \u201cmake them all look weak.\u201d<\/p>\n

The freeze on vehicle stops came late Monday on orders from Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, who had spoken with Senator Susan Collins of Maine after an ICE officer fatally shot 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a delivery driver from Colombia, in the town of Biddeford. The officer who shot Guerrero in the head was a new recruit who had joined ICE earlier this year after working as a police officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Senior officials at ICE have told us that officers aren\u2019t getting enough training in how to conduct vehicle stops and safely de-escalate confrontations when drivers don\u2019t obey commands.<\/p>\n

Collins, a Republican running for reelection, said yesterday that DHS had agreed to halt nonurgent stops, and she urged the department to expedite the delivery of body-worn cameras to ICE officers. Six days earlier, an ICE officer in Texas killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a construction contractor from Mexico who\u2019d been living in the United States for 35 years. Neither Salgado Araujo nor Guerrero had criminal records, according to publicly available sources, and neither was the target of the stop that led to their death.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s reversal marked an embarrassing turnabout for Mullin, who took over DHS in March, two months after a pair of U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis. Officials we spoke with at DHS and ICE said it was highly unlikely that Mullin would have allowed the initial order halting vehicle stops to be sent without getting approval from the White House. \u201cNot a chance,\u201d one DHS official told us. \u201cSomeone got into the big boss\u2019s ear. Three-ring circus.\u201d But a senior administration official denied that anyone at the White House had signed off on the pause in advance, and said Trump hadn\u2019t known about it.<\/p>\n

The backlash over the pause on traffic stops caught some in the White House off guard. Trump himself was spared a large portion of the blame from the right, and MAGA critics instead blamed others in the administration for supposedly failing to serve him properly. Mullin received much of the anger, picking up the nickname \u201cKung Fu Plumber\u201d in influential MAGA text chains and some corners of social media, two outside Trump advisers told us. (Mullin owns a plumbing-and-HVAC business and is a former MMA fighter.) One outside adviser told us that key voices in Trump\u2019s orbit attacked Mullin as \u201csoft\u201d and an \u201cappeaser\u201d of ICE opponents.<\/p>\n

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After Trump\u2019s Truth Social post, Mullin posted a statement to social media that lacked any instruction and did not directly address Trump\u2019s countermand. Mullin\u2019s statement said the department\u2019s top goal \u201cis to keep our officers safe and get criminals OFF our streets.\u201d He added that \u201cwe remind illegal aliens attempting to evade arrest is dangerous.\u201d As of this afternoon, ICE had not formally issued new orders reversing the vehicle-stop memo, according to officials we spoke with.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump and I are on the same page,\u201d Mullin said in a statement sent to us by DHS in response to our questions. \u201cWe want our ICE officers to have all options available to keep them safe while executing our mission of deporting as many illegal alien criminals from our country as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1985 Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v. Garner<\/em> established that police officers cannot use lethal force on a suspect for disobeying commands or attempting to flee. An officer must be able to articulate a well-reasoned fear of imminent harm to police or the public to justify opening fire. A driver who accelerates aggressively toward an officer would present a threat, but one trying to swerve around officers to escape would not alone meet that threshold.<\/p>\n

In Trump\u2019s first term, he was often susceptible to criticism from the right. More than once\u2014and most famously during the 2018 budget standoff\u2014he backed away from a deal after being attacked by Republicans on Fox News. In his second term, Trump has more often than not given the right what it wanted, allowing himself fewer opportunities to be outflanked. But after riding high during Trump\u2019s first months of this term, some in the MAGA base have grown frustrated by the president\u2019s inability to make good on campaign promises\u2014and by his decision to launch a war in Iran that has turned into a quagmire.<\/p>\n

Ever since the administration pulled back on its most aggressive immigration-enforcement actions following the January killings in Minneapolis, key MAGA voices have urged a return to more forceful tactics as a way to restore the base\u2019s faith, which appealed to Trump. Some officials, including Border Czar Tom Homan, have lately promoted an intensifying deportation push, even as some in the West Wing have privately worried about the potential for violent incidents that could be politically damaging. The new deaths have revived those fears.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the administration ramped up ICE arrests to nearly 2,000 a day, doubling the pace of this spring. ICE officers have come to rely on traffic stops to grab people as they leave for work in the morning, because unlike with arrests that are carried out inside homes, they don\u2019t need a warrant from a judge. Now they\u2019ll be able to resume those stops\u2014which will likely allow the arrest numbers to continue to climb but also risk more killings like the ones in Texas and Maine.<\/p>\n

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