WASHINGTON, United States (AFP)—United States (US) President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at a decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to suspend the use of traffic stops after two fatal shootings in less than a week.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) halted the practice after a Colombian man was shot dead in Maine on Monday and a Mexican man was killed in an operation in Texas last week.

“We CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.’s most important and effective crime-fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP!” Trump said in an early morning post on his Truth Social network.