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ICE pauses most vehicle stops as pressure to arrest is blamed for fatal shootings

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ICE 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. The move comes after ICE officers fatally shot two men in less than a week in Maine and Texas.

The administration's stepped up pressure to increase arrests has put officers under "too much stress," sources told NBC News after two men who weren't initial ICE targets were killed in less than a week.