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Administrative warrants and detainers

The use of administrative warrants and detainers by ICE, and the constitutional limits on their power.

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Feb 5, 2026

How did ICE’s use of detainers and administrative warrants change between the Obama and Trump administrations?

narrowed enforcement with formalized “priorities” and prosecutorial discretion that reduced routine use of detainers and constrained administrative warrants; those priorities were rescinded, detainer ...

Jan 11, 2026

How have courts interpreted ICE’s authority to detain people in public spaces based on reasonable suspicion?

Federal courts have long treated immigration stops as constrained by Fourth Amendment principles: brief, non‑custodial detentions require reasonable suspicion and must be supported by specific, articu...