U.S. President Donald Trump said federal immigration agents won’t end vehicle stops, one day after officials announced a temporary pause in such stops after agents fatally shot two men in Texas and Maine.

Recent Shootings

An ICE agent on Monday killed a driver from Colombia in the coastal Maine town of Biddeford, about 15 miles south of Portland. An ICE officer in Houston on July 7 fatally shot a Mexican national while trying to stop his vehicle.

Trump wrote in a social media post, ‘We must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!’

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, has characterized both men as “illegal immigrants” but acknowledged neither was the intended target of deportation operations that led to their deaths.

Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.