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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has modified its policy on which agents can stop vehicles and what procedures must be followed during such interventions, according to sources familiar with the change cited this Thursday by the ABC network.
The agency issued several guidelines this week determining that only agents from ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division who have completed the relevant training will be allowed to participate in stops, detailed the source who requested to remain anonymous.
Agents without the appropriate training will only be able to provide assistance, but not act as the primary authority in charge of the intervention, they added.
The measure comes after several operations in which ICE agents sought to stop vehicles and ended up firing their weapons.
The latest incident occurred on September 20, when an agent fired at 28-year-old Wilber Garcés following an immigration stop in northern Austin, Texas.
The shooting occurred just over two months after an ICE agent killed 52-year-old Mexican migrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on July 7 in Houston, Texas.
These incidents come amid an increase in anti-migrant operations during President Donald Trump's second term.
A report published in July by The Washington Post tallied at least seventeen drivers shot during operations by federal immigration agents since Trump's return to the White House, six of whom died. The count includes actions by ICE and other federal immigration agencies.
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