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The application of Fourth Amendment protections to digital records and the requirement for probable cause and warrants in obtaining such records.
ICE’s statutory authority is focused on enforcing federal immigration law: the agency can question, briefly detain with reasonable suspicion, arrest noncitizens it believes are in the country unlawful...
ICE builds arrest and detention decisions from a mix of records, field investigations and legal authorities: fingerprint and database matches, administrative warrants and detainers, referrals from loc...
Kristi Noem told reporters that Americans should be prepared to prove their citizenship during Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, a comment that has prompted immediate legal and political...
telling someone “” is not a neutral admonition; it is a threatening statement that can amount to unlawful intimidation or at minimum agency misconduct depending on the context, and it can implicate co...
Federal courts have produced a fractured body of law about -protection">Customs and Border Protection (CBP) activity beyond the agency’s regulatory “zone”: precedent gives CBP broad authority at the b...
A plurality of U.S. states have some form of “stop-and-identify” statute that allows police who have reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity to require a stopped person to identify them...
Federal law does not create a single, bright‑line ban on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using drones over neighborhoods, but a patchwork of constraints—airspace safety rules enforced by the...
U.S. courts have repeatedly constrained ICE’s authority to enter homes and make interior arrests without a judicial warrant, holding that warrantless home entries violate the Fourth Amendment absent r...
Federal immigration officers generally cannot force entry into the nonpublic areas of a private home in Minnesota without a judicially issued warrant; ICE’s so‑called “administrative” or agency-issued...
ICE’s authority to demand identification has historically operated within a shifting legal and political framework, and recent reporting shows courts and advocacy groups now say ICE may use race, lang...
The constitutional baseline is that the protects homes against unreasonable searches and seizures, and ordinarily a supported by probable cause is required to enter a residence without consent . Today...
The statutory backbone for ICE’s power to arrest and detain noncitizens is found primarily in the Immigration and Nationality Act and its implementing statutes—most notably 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226 and 1357—w...
Yes — federal law and ICE policy allow agents to detain people who obstruct or interfere with immigration enforcement, and those detentions can be criminal arrests when the conduct amounts to a federa...
Administrative ICE warrants are internal immigration documents signed by ICE or DHS officials that authorize immigration officers to arrest or effect a removal order but are not reviewed or signed by ...
The authority for ICE officers to arrest under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226 and 1357 is bounded by statutory categories, regulatory designations, and required training and certification: officers must be designat...
Courts have treated 8 U.S.C. § 1357’s grant of warrantless immigration powers as constrained by the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness inquiry, construing the statute’s “reason to believe” or “reasonab...
may question people in public without a warrant, but more intrusive actions on the street — a temporary detention or an arrest — require legal thresholds: a brief detention (a “stop”) needs reasonable...
There is no clear record in the supplied reporting of a decision that broadly authorizes to arrest people across ; instead, the most consequential rulings so far are a federal district judge’s prelimi...
Immigration and advocacy reporting shows —ranging from misrepresenting identity to staged scenarios designed to obtain voluntary consent to enter homes—and a recent internal memo authorizes forcible e...
A simple request that someone produce proof of U.S. citizenship is not, on its face, declared unconstitutional across the board in the sources provided; the legality depends on who is asking, under wh...