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U.S. citizens' Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable ICE entry into homes, and the gaps between constitutional rights and on-the-ground practice
county sheriffs have pointed to concrete legal risks — including the absence of state statutory authority to detain people on civil detainers, exposure to civil liability for unlawful arrests or deten...
holds that an officer’s subjective motive is irrelevant to “reasonableness” when there is an objectively justifiable basis for a seizure, a ruling courts have repeatedly applied to allow pretextual tr...
have long required a judicial arrest warrant—signed by a judge or magistrate supported by probable cause—before federal agents may forcibly enter a private home to make an arrest, with limited, well-d...
and many state systems allow warrants issued in one district to be executed elsewhere, and courts routinely reject defense claims that a warrant is invalid solely because the listed prosecuting office...
“detainers” and that limit local- cooperation have together made jail‑based arrests less reliable for federal immigration enforcement, pushing — arrests in workplaces, on streets, at courthouses and h...