ICE Orders Agents to Halt Car Stops After Request From Susan Collins

The decision comes the day after an ICE agent fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine.

Shooting in Maine involving ICE agents

DHS publicly acknowledged the fatal shooting in Maine nearly 12 hours after it happened. Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via AP

Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday ordered its agents to temporarily halt most car stops following two fatal shootings in Houston and Maine, according to multiple reports.

The decision comes one day after an ICE agent fatally shot Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a Colombian national, in Biddeford, Maine. It was the second fatal shooting involving an ICE agent in less than a week.

Agents will continue such stops when trying to serve criminal warrants on a person inside a vehicle, CNN reported.