Trump says ICE traffic stops should continue despite new policy to halt them 46%

By Catherine Dominguez20%

7/15/2026, 12:59:12 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Availability Heuristic, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 52.2% saturation with 106 hits. Analysis detected 842 faulty-reasoning hits from 203 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 48.5% and a BS Rank of 46% (11,076 of 20,453 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 54.20% of the article peer group.

President Donald Trump says traffic stops by U.S. 
Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue, calling them the country's "most important and effective" crime-fighting tool in a social media post early Wednesday. 
The post to Truth Social comes on the heels of reports of a new policy to halt the stops. 
"The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done. 
CRIME IS WAY DOWN IN AMERICA, in many cases with numbers that haven’t been seen in decades," Trump posted, adding that stopping the traffic stops is "playing right into the criminal's hands." 
INVESTIGATION: Houston Mayor John Whitmire asks Texas Rangers to investigate fatal ICE shooting 
The policy change came after two deadly shootings involving ICE agents. 
An ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 25-year-old Colombian national, in Maine on Monday, less than a week after an agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujoa, a Mexican national, on his way to work on July 7 in Houston. 
The suspension of vehicle stops allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, the Associated Press reports. 
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Writer's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coveragePresident Donald Trump • 23 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coveragePresident Donald Trump • 17 words • 100.0% coveragePresident Donald Trump • 32 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 44 words • 0.0% coverageAssociated Press • 23 words • 0.0% coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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