Ximena Bustillo

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260 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Sep

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Fatal ICE shootings reignite campaign debate over immigration · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

But to your point, right after it seemed like that directive was handed to pause, put a freeze on traffic stops, very quickly the president came out and said that he did not like that and actually wanted them to restart that policy.

Yes.

And this comes at a time in which Mullen wanted to take ICE out of the headlines.

Mullen has done, I think, a lot to make sure that the agency is still following through on this mass deportation promise.

We are still seeing high record numbers of people in immigration detention.

We're

which means they're still detaining people and they're still processing people out for deportations.

But you're just not seeing the big surges on cities like we saw in Boston and Chicago, L.A., Minneapolis, like nearly a year ago.

Yes and no.

I mean, anyone can commit to trying to do anything.

And that was essentially what former Secretary Kristi Noem did after the two shootings in Minneapolis, which she said every officer and agent in Minneapolis would get one, keeping in mind that they very quickly did scale that back.

just the number of people that were there, and that they would have an effort to do some sort of broader expansion nationwide.

There has long been a lot of complaints from the agency that there just simply wasn't the money for the body cameras.

So Congress did fix that in a sense.

So in April, one of the spending packages did include $20 million just for body worn cameras.

Now DHS then says

that they were shut down.

So yeah, maybe they got the money, but they couldn't do the implementation.

They couldn't get the contracts out.

They couldn't do the training, like all these other things because they were shut down, they couldn't do.

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