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🚨MIGRANT INSIDER CONFIRMS:

Federal immigration agents are ordered to suspend vehicular stops nationwide as of noon ET today after ICE killings of motorists in Texas and Maine.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller “vehemently opposed” the change but to no avail. https://t.co/4hBh41WudD

— Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) July 14, 2026

Miller finally got his way.

Trump: "We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch. I.C.E., be… pic.twitter.com/JoDE17WXNY

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 15, 2026

Trump: "We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal’s hands. The Radical Left Dumocrats would like to see this done, but it won’t happen on my watch. I.C.E., be judicious, fair and smart, and go back and do your very important job. Keep those Crime Stat Records coming! Remember, you are loved and respected in America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"

Nope. Not a “Crime Fighting tool[]” at all.

Making matters worse, Houser continued, these sorts of traffic stops "[are] not sort of in their tactical ... toolkit. You know, yes, there have been vehicle stops used mainly by fugitive operations and other ... convicted criminals. But just sort of these, these random stops, like it's like a DUI stop in some rural county in America."

That is flatly not "the traditional way" ICE has operated, he added, and Trump's claims to the contrary are "just factually not true."

But neither Trump nor Miller know anything about government or law enforcement. They literally think it’s about “crime fighting,” like they were comic book heroes. 🦸‍♂️  They don’t really care if they hurt people; they just don’t want bad publicity. 

Well, Trump doesn’t want it.

(I was in a Border Patrol traffic stop once. In New Mexico, on a very quiet highway.  They were looking for immigrants, and stopping every car to check the passengers. Maybe the trunk, but we were three white people, and the agent was very polite. The “stop” itself was just a “pull over here” type of thing. Nobody in an unmarked car chasing us down, or I wouldn’t have slowed down. I’ve never seen the police conduct a “traffic stop” by chasing the car down in unmarked cars, no lights.  Come to think of it, “traffic stop” is a helluva euphemism.)