Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail.Subscribe to read this story ad-freeGet unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.In today’s edition, our national security and politics teams dig into the policy and electoral fallout after ICE officers fatally shot two men in recent days.And our legal reporters watched as Supreme Court justices testified before Congress in a bid for more security funding.Sign up to receive this newsletter in your inbox every weekday here.— Scott BlandICE tells officers to stop car pursuits amid uproar after shootingICE has issued a nationwide order to all officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official and two former senior DHS officials, NBC News’ Julia Ainsley, Laura Strickler, Suzanne Gamboa, Daniella Silva and Nicole Acevedo report.
The move comes after ICE officers fatally shot two men in less than a week in Maine and Texas.The pause is temporary, according to a senior DHS official with knowledge of the policy change.The official added that ICE is “evaluating the incidents to determine what additional training is needed to reduce the negative outcomes we are seeing.” There is no scheduled timeline for when the pause might lift.
The ICE officers in both cases were making vehicle stops when they ended up killing men who were not their original targets for arrest, local officials said.The two shootings took place after the administration upped the pressure on immigration agents to step up arrests, sources have told NBC News.Meanwhile, as Democratic candidates for Senate in Maine rushed to condemn the shooting, Republican Sen.
Susan Collins called for an investigation and said today that she has been in frequent touch with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, Sahil Kapur and Frank Thorp V report....