Fatal ICE shootings reignite campaign debate over immigration

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  Immigration has been a motivating issue for Republicans for every election going back years.

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  But aggressive immigration tactics have shifted public opinion.

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  So how is immigration playing in this year's midterm campaigns?

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  We've got some early answers.

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  It's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover politics.

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  I'm Ximena Bustillo, and I cover immigration policy.

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  And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

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  Ximena, there have been two fatal shootings this month involving ICE officers, first in Texas, then last week in Maine.

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  How have those incidents altered the conversation over immigration enforcement?

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  Both by immigration and customs enforcement officers, neither was the target of the arrests.

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  And so this has renewed conversations about the tactics, the training, the direction

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  and directive that these ICE officers are being given to result in deaths of individuals

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  who were not even the target of the arrests.

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  And you mentioned it, but both of these incidents involve traffic stops, and that has gotten a lot of focus.

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