ICE Resumes Vehicle Stops After One-Day Pause, Adds Body Cameras Following Two Fatal Shootings

ICE is back to doing vehicle stops. The pause lasted about a day.

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed the resumption Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union," telling host Dana Bash that acting ICE Director David Venturella made immediate procedural changes that let enforcement continue without waiting on a full review, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation and the Tampa Free Press.

The changes: every vehicle stop now requires at least one agent wearing an active body camera, and "journeymen" agents, meaning experienced personnel, must be assigned to each operation, Homan said.

The stops were briefly halted after two fatal shootings involving ICE agents. Axios reported President Trump reversed that pause roughly a day after it was issued. The Mirror identified the men killed as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, a Mexican national shot in Texas, and Joan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, 25, a Colombian national shot in Maine, with the two incidents occurring within less than a week of each other.

Those shootings didn't happen in a vacuum. The Mirror reported, citing The Daily Beast and The New York Times, that Trump had demanded ICE hit a target of at least 2,000 daily detentions shortly before the killings, and agents arrested more than 10,000 people in five days.

The Exchange That Mattered

Bash didn't let Homan slide past the word "mistakes." When Homan said, "I wouldn't say... that mistakes were made," Bash shot back: "Well, we have seen with our own eyes mistakes were made. Deadly mistakes were made. At least five of them," according to the Daily Caller News Foundation's transcript of the exchange.

Homan's response leaned on process: "We always evaluate training. It's something law enforcement does all the time." He said the training, and the stops themselves, are "all being reviewed" and that conclusions will come once that review finishes.

Agencies conduct after-action reviews on shootings constantly, and jumping to "deadly mistakes" before an investigation concludes is exactly the kind of premature verdict law enforcement unions and defense attorneys routinely warn against. Homan's argument that body cameras will let "the American people see what that officer saw" is a reasonable transparency measure.

Yet Bash's pushback has merit. Two people are dead. Five incidents total were referenced in the interview. A one-day pause followed by a presidential order to resume, with the "review" continuing in parallel rather than pausing operations, is a legitimate thing to question. Homan's own answer, that changes were already implemented so stops didn't need to stay paused, is a policy choice, not evidence the review is rigorous.

Homan Couldn't Answer a Basic Follow-Up

The more difficult moment for Homan came when Bash asked whether the officers involved in the Texas and Maine shootings were on administrative leave, according to The Mirror's transcript of the exchange.

"I don't know specifically," Homan said. "The policy would be to put them on administrative leave."

Bash pressed again: as border czar, did he know for certain? "No," Homan answered.

That's a notable gap. Homan is the administration's lead voice defending ICE's conduct, and he couldn't confirm the most basic accountability step: whether the agents who fired the fatal shots have been removed from active duty in two closely watched shootings.

What's Actually Changed, and What Hasn't

The body-camera mandate and the requirement for veteran agents on every stop are concrete, verifiable policy changes, confirmed by both the Daily Caller News Foundation and the Tampa Free Press. Whether they address the underlying problem—aggressive stop tactics tied to a 2,000-per-day detention quota—is a separate question the review is supposed to answer.

No charges have been filed against any ICE agent in either shooting as of this reporting. No investigation findings have been released. The administrative-leave status of the specific officers involved remains unconfirmed even by Homan himself.

The unresolved question is straightforward: will the internal review, running concurrently with resumed operations rather than pausing them, produce findings before ICE conducts more vehicle stops under the quota pressure that preceded these shootings. Homan gave no timeline for when that review concludes.