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Federal courts across multiple jurisdictions weighed in during 2025 on legal disputes tied to , and several of those decisions directly implicated citizens or the treatment of people detained alongsid...
If ICE makes an unlawful stop or arrest, individuals have immediate on-scene protections (right to remain silent; ask “Am I free to go?”; refuse consent to searches) and several legal avenues afterwar...
ICE may make arrests without a judicial warrant in limited circumstances: when officers personally witness an immigration violation or when they have probable cause that a person is removable and like...
Since 2022, two lines of appellate and high‑profile federal rulings have most reshaped on ICE’s warrantless arrests: in that scrutinized and probable‑cause safeguards , and that narrowed district‑cour...
Federal courts since 2017 have repeatedly constrained both ’s use of administrative detainers and its practice of making warrantless interior arrests, finding detainers lack independent legal force an...
Consent decrees born from have forced concrete procedural changes inside — new written limits on warrantless arrests, retraining, recordkeeping and monthly reporting — and they have become a blueprint...
U.S. citizens mistakenly arrested or detained by ICE can seek release and civil remedies through immediate on-the-ground steps, internal and congressional oversight, and lawsuits under the Federal Tor...
Court actions and class settlements in 2024–25 produced a mix of remedies for wrongful ICE arrests: federal judges vacated at least one intrusive enforcement practice (the “knock-and-talk” home-arrest...