Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Wednesday he wants answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after two fatal officer-involved shootings the past week.
Speaking at The Hill's second annual Hill Nation Summit, Garbarino said his committee has already contacted ICE and requested a briefing with the agency next week.
Garbarino said he was "not sure" ICE should "remove that tool" from its enforcement efforts after the agency paused traffic stops in the wake of the shootings.
"As long as those officers are focused on what they told us they were focused on, and they are, I don't have a problem with them doing traffic stops," Garbarino said.
The New York Republican said the committee also wants an update on ICE's implementation of body-worn camera requirements after officers involved in both shootings were not wearing the cameras.
He noted the briefing will not cover the recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine because both incidents remain under FBI investigation.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pledged in February to expand ICE's body camera program nationwide.
President Donald Trump also weighed in Wednesday, saying ICE should continue conducting traffic stops.
"The Open Border Policy of Sleepy Joe Biden allowed 25,000,000 people to pour into our Country, unchecked and unvetted. Many were Criminals, and we have to get them out," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"In order to do this, we must be strong, tough, and smart, and we CANNOT give up one of I.C.E.'s most important and effective Crime Fighting tools, THE TRAFFIC STOP! Once we do, we are playing right into the criminal's hands," he added.
The scrutiny comes as the Trump administration seeks to fulfill one of the president's signature campaign promises by increasing arrests and deportations of immigrants in the country illegally.
At the same time, the administration has sought to reduce the potential for violent confrontations during immigration enforcement operations, including by expanding the use of the body-worn cameras to improve accountability and document encounters.