MS NOW⁠94%

Trump demands additional ICE traffic stops, despite his own administration’s new policy ⁠60%

By Steve Benen⁠95%

7/15/2026, 1:01:25 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 28 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 37.1% saturation with 175 hits. Analysis detected 1,493 faulty-reasoning hits from 472 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 56.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠60% (8,171 of 20,371 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 59.90% of the article peer group.

After months of controversy surrounding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its tactics, things took a brutal turn for the worse this week in Maine, where an ICE officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero , a Colombian man authorized to work in the U.S. who was also father of a 3-year-old girl. 
The developments came just a week after a different ICE officer fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston. 
The deadly violence in Maine has led to a series of local protests. 
The political backlash has also been directed against Sen. 
Susan Collins, a Maine Republican facing a tough re-election fight, who recently voted to approve tens of billions in additional funds for ICE with no strings attached. 
The day after the shooting, the GOP incumbent said she had urged Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to “cease all non-urgent vehicle stops.” 
Soon after, Collins appeared to get her way: The New York Times reported that the Trump administration ordered ICE officers “to halt most vehicle stops while carrying out operations across the country.” 
The report added, “The pause on vehicle stops could hamper the agency’s ability to increase arrests as it faces increasing pressure to deliver on the president’s promise of mass deportations. 
But it comes as some influential lawmakers and state officials have demanded answers about the latest shootings.” 
The larger question, however, wasn’t limited to the practical effects of the new policy. 
Just as important was how long the new policy would remain in place. 
The answer, evidently, was less than a day. 
On Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump published an unexpected statement to his social media platform that read, in part: 
[W]e 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! 
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. 
Right off the bat, the idea that ICE traffic stops are one of the administration’s “most important and effective Crime Fighting tools” is highly dubious, and if the White House has evidence to support the claim, it has kept the proof well hidden. 
What’s more, with Collins’ position in mind, it’s not just “radical” leftists who have supported swift changes to ICE enforcement tactics. 
But just as jarring is that Trump is now contradicting his own administration, raising questions about who is whispering in the president’s ear, and why in the current executive branch the right hand too often doesn’t seem to know what the even-further-to-the-right hand is doing. 
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472 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Susan Collins

100%flagged-word coverage
27 attributed words18% of attributed speech86% writer coverage
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