Trump directs federal agents to resume traffic stops as arrest tactic

US President Donald Trump directed federal immigration agents Wednesday

to resume traffic stops as an arrest tactic,

overruling top administration officials

who had temporarily suspended pulling over vehicles,

after agents fatally shot two drivers in Texas and Maine

within days of each other.

Meanwhile community groups gather at a memorial

for one of the victims killed

by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents,

a 25-year-old Colombian national.

In Biddeford, Maine, a woman visits a growing memorial for

Johan Sebastian Duran Guerrero, who was a 25-year-old Colombian

fatally shot by ICE.

Advocacy groups say Guerrero had a wife and young daughter

and was authorised to work in the United States.

Naoto Inoue, Maine resident

Yesterday I saw this memorial and my inner voice said to me that you must stop,

park, pay tribute to this guy, Sebastian, 24 years.

And I'm 74 and I'm a zero generation immigrant and I feel so sad

that this young man with a three-year-old daughter couldn't get the 50 years

that I was able to be given by this beautiful country, you know,

that we all should recognise the fact that this country was built by immigrants.

We are all immigrants.

Footage from a security camera captured the shooting Monday

during an immigration enforcement operation in the city of Biddeford.

The incident marked the second time in a week that ICE used deadly force

and at least the ninth death since President Donald Trump

began his immigration crackdown.

President Trump is publicly pushing back against his own

administration urging ICE to continue traffic stops,

opposing a new suspension of the practice used as part of his

immigration crackdown.

In a Truth Social Post, Trump said "The men and women of

ICE are doing a great job, one that has to be done."