The Shooter in Maine Was a New ICE Recruit

Late last night, at the end of a day that started with the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man in Maine, the second fatal shooting involving a vehicle-stop in a week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Liana Castano sent out an email to top ICE supervisors around the country. “Effective immediately,” Castano wrote, “vehicle stops are suspended until further notice.” It was an extraordinary directive to ICE officers on the street, essentially telling them to no longer attempt to…