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The authority of ICE to lawfully prolong a traffic stop or detain vehicle occupants without a judicial warrant, and the constraints imposed by the Fourth Amendment and court settlements.
ICE may detain a person in public when officers have statutory authority and either a warrant or probable cause that the individual is removable or has committed a federal offense, but the agency’s po...
ICE can lawfully prolong a traffic stop or detain vehicle occupants without a judicial warrant only when federal statutory authority and the Fourth Amendment’s standards are met — most critically, whe...
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...
The statutory backbone of ICE’s detention authority is the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), primarily 8 U.S.C. §§ 1226, 1226(c), 1231 and 1357, which authorize administrative arrests and detenti...