Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero was living in Biddeford, a small city in southern Maine, where he worked as a cleaner and food delivery driver. He had a partner and a 3-year-old daughter, neighbors said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers received an email from senior Homeland Security leadership on Tuesday ordering them to 'immediately' pause all vehicle stops.
ICE has paused most routine vehicle stops nationwide after two fatal shootings in Texas and Maine, while reviewing enforcement tactics. The move is a temporary safety measure, not a policy change.
Senior ICE officials say Donald Trump's push for 2,000 immigration arrests a day is creating 'toxic' conditions and contributing to deadly shootings in Houston, Maine and Minnesota.
In the wake of two fatal ICE-involved shootings in less than a week, the Department of Homeland Security is now instructing agents to suspend most vehicle stops amid growing uproar. On Truth Social, President Donald Trump wrote, "We cannot give up .. ...