Trump Slams the Brakes on Weak-Kneed Bureaucrats: Orders ICE to Get Back to Work Nabbing Criminals

President Trump wasted no time telling the Department of Homeland Security to cut the nonsense. One day after DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin hit the brakes on ICE vehicle stops, Trump ordered the agency to reverse course and resume one of its most effective tools for catching illegal aliens and criminals.

In a blunt social media post, Trump made his position crystal clear. "We CANNOT give up one of ICE's most important and effective Crime fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" He added that pausing the tactic would only play right into the criminals' hands.

The Radical Left Dumocrats (sic) would love nothing more than to see ICE tied down, he noted, but that surrender would not happen on his watch.

Trump told the agents directly to be judicious, fair, and smart, then get right back to doing their important job. The White House confirmed the pause was dead. Nationwide instructions telling agents to stop most vehicle stops, except for the worst violent offenders, were scrapped.

The original plan had been to keep the pause going indefinitely until new training was rolled out. That idea lasted about 24 hours once Trump weighed in.The pause came after two fatal shootings during stops in Maine and Texas. Some inside ICE called the change "horrible but needed."

Trump saw it differently. He praised the men and women of ICE for doing a great job under tough conditions and pointed out that crime is way down across America, with numbers not seen in decades. He reminded everyone that Sleepy Joe Biden opened the border and let in roughly 25 million people, many unchecked and unvetted, including plenty of criminals. Getting them out requires strength, toughness, and smarts, Trump said, not timid pauses cooked up by nervous bureaucrats.

To the agents on the ground he sent a clear message: Keep those crime statistics coming. Remember, you are loved and respected in America. While sanctuary city politicians and their media allies try to make every enforcement action look like a crisis, Trump continues to back the officers who actually have to clean up the mess. Traffic stops remain on the table. The adults are back in charge.

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