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ICE entry into homes

U.S. citizens' Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable ICE entry into homes, and the gaps between constitutional rights and on-the-ground practice

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Jan 26, 2026
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How does Whren v. United States affect civil rights lawsuits challenging ICE pretextual stops and arrests?

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...

Jan 28, 2026

How have court rulings and local policies (sanctuary laws) affected ICE's shift from jail‑based to at‑large interior arrests?

“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...