FBI reportedly directed to stop investigating confrontations with immigration agents

Reports say the FBI was directed to stop investigating confrontations involving immigration agents, a claim the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security called false as Democrats pressed for answers. The controversy comes amid heightened scrutiny of Immigration and Customs Enforcement following multiple deadly incidents involving ICE officers. Last week in Maine, an ICE officer fatally shot Johan Sebastián Guerrero, a Colombian man authorized to work in the U.S. who was the father of a 3-year-old. A week earlier, another ICE officer shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop in Houston, and a separate Florida case involved a 28-year-old Mexican man who died after fleeing agents and being hit by a truck. The New York Times reported FBI managers were notified in writing nationwide, but DHS and DOJ issued a joint statement saying the investigation relationship had not changed and that the FBI would continue under agency policy.