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Federal appellate precedent is fractured: a trio of 1980s appellate decisions extended administrative-warrant doctrine to immigration enforcement in some contexts, while more recent district and circu...
There have been multiple federal court actions and judicial opinions challenging ICE’s practice of conducting warrantless searches and arrests, with litigants arguing these actions violate the Fourth ...
ICE can generally arrest individuals without a judicial warrant in public spaces and conduct certain brief detentions based on , but entry into private homes or nonpublic areas of businesses typically...
since 2024 have been a frontline check on the -to--era executive push to speed deportations: judges across several jurisdictions have issued injunctions and rulings that block or limit expansions of a...
Official verification of a U.S. citizen’s naturalization date is available, but fragmented: federal court naturalization files and National Archives holdings cover many pre-1991 cases, USCIS maintains...
Warrantless ICE arrests and searches are constrained by a mix of statutory text, Supreme Court precedents, and recent lower-court rulings that emphasize Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections; . Recen...
treated ’s initiatives—most notably and the proposed and DACA expansion —as a contest over law, policy and political messaging: Republicans used hearings to assert executive overreach and to highlight...
Federal courts do not speak with one voice about when ICE may rely on agency-issued administrative or “Blackie’s” inspection warrants to enter workplaces or homes: a line of appellate decisions from t...
Federal judges and settlements over the past decade have carved clear limits around ICE’s use of deception and its reliance on administrative (non‑judicial) warrants: courts have curtailed warrantless...
The Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable searches and seizures and, in practice, constrains ICE from forcibly entering and rummaging through private, non‑public areas of workplaces without a judicially ...
Official U.S. naturalization records that can be used to verify whether a non‑elected family member of a public official became a U.S. citizen include court naturalization petitions and certificates, ...
Lower federal appellate courts frequently checked President Obama’s unilateral actions, upholding injunctions or siding with challengers in major cases such as the Fifth Circuit’s stay of DAPA/DACA ex...