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The powers of federal immigration officers, specifically ICE, to use consensual encounters, ruses, and warrantless arrests, and the limits and oversight of these powers.
ICE does have legal powers to arrest people, and those powers can extend to someone who disobeys an officer’s lawful command if that disobedience amounts to a criminal offense—for example resisting, o...
Federal immigration officers can and do use consensual encounters, ruses and warrantless arrests, but those powers are bounded by a mix of statutory text, Fourth Amendment limits, agency policy and ag...
Federal arrest and search powers for ICE officers flow primarily from the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) as codified at 8 U.S.C. §1357 (often cited as INA §287) and from DHS regulations that im...
Yes—federal immigration law and agency practice allow ICE to detain or arrest noncitizens in many circumstances without a judicial criminal warrant, but those warrantless arrests must still meet statu...