Lorenzo Salgado Araujo shot and killed by ICE agent in Houston, authorities confirm: Live updates

President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings.

President Donald Trump says Immigration and Customs Enforcement should continue traffic stops after recent fatal shootings, seeming to contradict a new policy to halt them.

Trump wrote early Wednesday on his social media site ICE is "doing a GREAT job, one that has to be done."

The Republican president says to remove criminals he says were let into the country under the previous Democratic administration "we must be strong, tough and smart and we CANNOT give up one of ICE's most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!" Trump says, "Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal's hands."

The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the agency's enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said.

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Following two deadly shootings involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Texas and Maine, the Department of Homeland Security is now stating that ICE will ensure each "arrest team has an individual body camera."

This comes after it was reported that the agents involved in the shootings that killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero were not wearing body cameras.

"Ensuring all of our ICE law enforcement officers have body cameras nationwide is a top priority for DHS-especially given the increase in attacks against our law enforcement, including a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them and a 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks," according to a DHS spokesperson.

In addition, ICE has also been told to pause most vehicle stops in the days following the shootings, according to sources.

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Houston Mayor John Whitmire and HPD chief ask Texas Rangers to conduct an independent investigation into the deadly ICE shooting.

One week after 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed during an ICE operation in Houston's East End, dozens of residents packed Houston City Hall to demand an independent investigation and greater accountability from local leaders.

The latest development came Tuesday evening, when Houston Police Chief J. Noe Diaz Jr. sent a letter to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Freeman Martin requesting that the Texas Rangers conduct their own investigation into the shooting. In the letter, Diaz said he and Mayor John Whitmire believe a Texas Rangers investigation would help ensure the case is handled independently and transparently.

Earlier, residents, activists, and many others pleaded with city leaders to continue pursuing a local investigation.

"It's deeply disturbing that the City of Houston has not taken a stronger stand against ICE," one speaker told City Council.

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It's now been a week since Lorenzo Salgado was shot and killed on Canal Street at the hands of an ICE agent.

The Department of Homeland Security, from the first day, has said it was self-defense because they claim Salgado tried to run an agent over. DHS says its agents weren't wearing body-worn cameras when this happened.

Congresswoman Sylvia Garcia has confirmed, through conversations with the acting ICE director, that Salgado was never the target of ICE's immigration enforcement.

They also say the agents did not have a body-worn camera or dash camera video of what happened on July 7 on Canal Street.

Garcia says the agents involved in the deadly shooting and the chase were reassigned out of Houston.

Investigators at the Harris County District Attorney's Office are seeking, as the DA confirms, they have NOT been able to even identify the agents involved since the federal agency is icing them out.

Houston Mayor John Whitmire confirmed they've turned over METRO video and 911 calls to authorized personnel and the DA's office.