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The process and rules surrounding immigration arrests, including the requirement for probable cause and neutral review.
Judicial warrants are court-issued orders signed by a judge that authorize searches, arrests, or seizures and permit entry into private, nonpublic spaces; administrative ICE warrants are agency-issued...
Under current law and Supreme Court precedent, the government generally may not make a nonconsensual entry into a home without a judicial warrant; narrowly defined exceptions permit warrantless entry ...
Federal reporting and legal guides uniformly state that immigration officers — including ICE and HSI personnel — are required by federal law and agency regulations to identify themselves as officers a...
The constrains : courts have long held that judicial warrants, consent, or exigent circumstances are required for home entries, and several recent rulings and lawsuits find agency practices — includin...
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...
The Department of Homeland Security and ICE say the surge of roughly 2,000 federal officers into the Minneapolis area was intended to carry out what they called the “largest DHS/ICE operation ever” to...
When ICE agents enter a private home without a warrant signed by a judge, the legal landscape is disputed but not lawless: federal training materials and immigrant‑rights guidance emphasize that admin...
State prosecutors have succeeded in bringing charges against federal law-enforcement officers only when the officers’ conduct fell outside the scope of their federal duties — for example, alleged pers...
The primary legal protection against unlawful seizures by ICE agents is the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which forbids unreasonable searches and seizures and generally requires a judicia...