A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) declined to comment, telling the BBC: “We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets.”

“We will not reveal or discuss police tactics.”

Speaking to Fox News on Tuesday, Homan, who is an adviser to Trump, said officers already have extensive training in stopping vehicles.

He said officers only have a few moments to react during arrests and that “every arrest is different.”

The pause, he added, would be brief and would allow leaders to conduct a short-term review.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin told the BBC News Channel on Tuesday that he fears more incidents like this will occur because of what he called “quotas” at ICE for deportations and arrests.

Durbin, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees federal policing as well as criminal justice and immigration reform, said people at ICE “are not following basic rules and principles when it comes to good policing.”

“It is not enough to say that they are going to adjust things,” the senator insisted. “This is creating a wave of terror and fear in our country. It is interfering with the lives of people who just want to be good citizens and good people.”

In the recent incident, an ICE agent shot and killed a 26-year-old Colombian citizen during an immigration enforcement operation in Maine.

DHS said the officer, “fearing for public safety,” opened fire on the man when he tried to flee the scene and after officers attempted to stop his vehicle.

The department did not specify the threat he posed.

The shooting took place in Biddeford, Maine, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) south of Portland.

Immigration advocates have said the man was authorized to work in the United States and had a Social Security number.

He has not yet been officially identified, but local legislators and neighbors identified him as Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition and Presente! Maine, two immigrant advocacy groups, issued a joint statement calling his death “devastating, infuriating and unacceptable.”

In a separate incident early Tuesday, a person fleeing federal immigration agents in St. Augustine, Florida, was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Less than a week earlier, another man, a Mexican national who had lived in the United States for decades, was shot and killed by an ICE officer in Houston, Texas.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was arrested at 07:00 local time (12:00 GMT) while on his way to work and died shortly after.

The DHS said last Thursday that the stop was initiated because they saw “a white van with an individual who resembled the target” of an operation. They said the officer shot in self-defense and that Araujo was not the man ICE was looking for.

Passengers in the van and the victim’s family have disputed the department’s account, and the agency’s legal watchdog has opened an investigation into the fatal shooting.

Both shootings in Maine and Texas have sparked protests.

They come after protests were held across the country earlier this year following the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Both U.S. citizens were protesting when they were shot and killed in confrontations with ICE agents in January.

In March, US President Donald Trump replaced Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. Former Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino was replaced shortly after.

Trump launched a deportation campaign shortly after his return to the White House.

According to Reuters, at least seven people have died in immigration control operations since January 2025.

Kwasi Asiedu, Nardine Saad and Sareen Habeshian contributed to this report.