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The protections afforded to individuals by the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, including the right to remain silent and to refuse searches.
Federal immigration officers operate under statutory authority and constitutional constraints that shape what they may do in states; but cannot lawfully commandeer state officials to enforce federal l...
, fact-specific line between protected newsgathering and criminal liability for journalists at disruptive protests: courts consistently recognize qualified and protections for reporters who are observ...
ICE detainers are administrative requests—typically Form I-247A—sent by federal immigration authorities asking state or local jails to notify ICE of an individual’s release date or to hold the person ...
The statutory text courts parse when assessing is concentrated in 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a), which authorizes immigration officers “power without warrant” to interrogate aliens and to arrest aliens under spe...
The second ’s surge has prompted allegations that some enforcement tactics crossed legal lines — including fatal shootings by agents, warrantless detentions, arrests of noncriminal residents and citiz...
Yes — U.S. citizens can refuse to submit their electronic devices or to unlock them at U.S. ports of entry, but that refusal does not stop border agents from exercising broad search and seizure powers...
Federal law and agency practice give Immigration and Customs Enforcement () the legal authority to stop, question, arrest and detain noncitizens in public places: statutory enforcement powers under th...
Reporting from and other cities documents multiple recent incidents in which federal immigration agents breached homes, sometimes without showing warrants, and removed residents — including at least o...
U.S. courts have split over whether law enforcement may rely on a platform’s automated or human review of suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without a warrant, applying competing doctrines—c...
The legal default at U.S. borders permits warrantless searches of people and their belongings—including electronic devices—under the longstanding "border search" exception to the Fourth Amendment, a p...
-born citizens retain full constitutional protections during encounters with : they have the right to remain silent, cannot be lawfully detained or deported for immigration violations, and generally d...
and device identifiers as investigative tools, and private companies and platforms routinely collect the same signals that make that possible . Whether police must get a warrant depends on the legal g...
The sources provided do not support a definitive list of "12 states" with ; national surveys and legal charts instead report between about two dozen states with some form of statute, and the precise c...
inside are protected by the ’s privilege against self‑incrimination and, in criminal custodial interrogations, by the Miranda framework that safeguards that privilege; the Constitution speaks of “pers...
is an administrative “Warrant for Arrest of Alien” issued to put a noncitizen into custody for civil immigration proceedings, whereas a judicial arrest warrant is issued and signed by a court after a ...
Investigators who receive a report ordinarily cannot rely on the report alone to obtain full account records, connection logs, or deleted content; the CyberTipline and reporting platforms provide a le...
citizens do have the legal right to refuse consent to searches of their vehicle or luggage, but that right is constrained at the border and at ports of entry: federal agents generally have broader aut...
Federal judges have repeatedly pushed back on ’s attempts to from lawyers and former intelligence officials, issuing preliminary injunctions and rulings that emphasize procedural defects and possible ...
When approaches someone in a public space, both U.S. citizens and noncitizens retain : the right to remain silent, limits on searches and seizures, and the ability of bystanders to record—so long as t...
Federal, congressional and local law‑enforcement probes into who funded have produced a range of outcomes—formal criminal or civil inquiries with subpoenas and search warrants in some high‑profile cas...