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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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
determines immigration status during interrogations primarily through on-the-spot questioning authorized by , review of any identity or immigration documents presented, and subsequent administrative c...
Federal agencies operate under a distinct regime at international borders and their "functional equivalents" (like international airports): routine identity checks and searches at those points are sub...
Since 2023 courts have nudged the law toward greater judicial oversight of both facial recognition and license‑plate surveillance, but they have not produced a single, nationwide warrant rule: state a...
When an ICE agent requests identification or threatens detention, the immediate legal pillars are the right to remain silent, the right to refuse consent to searches, and the right to ask whether one ...