Trump tells ICE to continue traffic stops, contradicting DHS order after fatal shootings.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should continue making traffic stops, just one day after homeland security sources said federal officers had been instructed to temporarily stop pulling drivers over.

According to homeland security sources, the directive followed the fatal shootings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston on July 7 and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine on Monday.

Trump's statement appeared to contradict the new policy after the Department of Homeland Security instructed ICE officers not to stop moving vehicles to arrest or question occupants. The policy change followed the fatal shootings of two unarmed motorists who were not the intended targets of the operations, and in both cases the agents involved were not wearing body cameras. In his Wednesday remarks, Trump did not mention either of the two deaths.

In Florida on Tuesday, a 28-year-old man died after being struck by a truck while fleeing immigration officers and other federal agents, marking the third such death in about a week. Since the start of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign, at least 10 people have died during immigration enforcement operations, including four during vehicle stops.

The deaths have renewed criticism of ICE's enforcement tactics. In Houston, passengers in Salgado's van told their attorney that no officer was ever in the vehicle's path and that the shots came from the sides of the vehicle. In Maine, Durán's wife and young daughter, who was wearing pyjamas, reportedly witnessed the aftermath after he told agents he had tried to stop the car. The Department of Homeland Security has also struggled to provide a consistent explanation for its directive.