New ICE Guidance Bans High-Speed Car Chases and Sets Tighter Rules for Traffic Stops, a Memo Shows
The memo follows several shootings and requires trained officers, body cameras and follow-up on vehicle information instead of pursuits.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued new guidance requiring officers to complete one of six training courses before conducting vehicle stops, while mandating body-worn cameras, lights, and sirens on all stop vehicles.
- Following fatal shootings in Texas and Maine, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin paused vehicle stops in July; President Donald Trump later overturned that decision, creating internal tension over immigration enforcement priorities.
- Officers are authorized to pin vehicles for safety but prohibited from engaging in vehicle pursuits if suspects fail to stop. Instead, they must take down vehicle information for further investigation, according to the memo signed by ICE's executive associate director Marcos D. Charles and dated Wednesday.
- Vehicle stops remain a central tool for the administration's immigration crackdown, though the guidance aims to standardize procedures following fatal incidents involving immigrants and citizens, including a recent shooting in Austin.
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ICE agents must now complete training to stop vehicles, after shooting incidents.High-speed chases are prohibited.The new regulations seek to improve security in traffic detentions, allowing only trained officers to use techniques such as pinning and barbed bands.
New ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, AP reports - The Boston Globe
Federal agents have fired their guns during more than a dozen ICE-initiated vehicle stops since last year, killing at least four people and wounding several others.
New ICE guidance bans high-speed car chases and sets tighter rules for traffic stops, a memo shows – WTOP News
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in encounters with ICE. A memo sent to officers in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division and...
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