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 The Hill - President Trump on Wednesday said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should continue utilizing traffic stops, calling the tactic one of the agency’s “most important and effective” crime-fighting tools.

“The men and women of ICE are doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, praising the agency’s efforts to enforce his robust deportation agenda and taking a swipe at the previous administration’s border policies.

NY Times -   The father of a Colombian immigrant shot and killed by a federal agent in Maine on Monday described him as “a good person raised with strong values,” who worked two jobs to support his wife and 3-year-old daughter.

“He had a great vision for getting ahead, so many dreams to fulfill,” Omar Duran, the father of Joan Sebastian Guerrero, told Noticias Caracol, a Colombian news outlet, on Tuesday, speaking in Spanish. “My son is a wonderful son — I don’t know why they did that to him.”

Mr. Guerrero, 25, lived in Biddeford, a small city south of Portland, where he worked as a food delivery driver and a late-night cleaner at a veterinary clinic. Mr. Duran said his son was in the United States legally and was authorized to work.

On Wednesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that Mr. Guerrero had “illegally entered the United States on Sept. 1, 2023, via the southern border and was released into the country under the Biden Administration.”

In the hours after he was killed on the block where he lived, details emerged to suggest that immigration agents may have mistaken him for another person. A spokesman for Senator Angus King of Maine said on Monday that Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, had told the senator that the agents had been looking for someone else.