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Constitutional rights of undocumented detainees, including the right to remain silent and the right to refuse questioning without a lawyer.
ICE’s statutory authority is focused on enforcing federal immigration law: the agency can question, briefly detain with reasonable suspicion, arrest noncitizens it believes are in the country unlawful...
Federal law does not create a general obligation for U.S. citizens to carry or show proof of citizenship in public, and ICE (a federal immigration agency) has statutory authority to question, detain o...
gives broad authority to arrest noncitizens without a traditional judge‑issued criminal warrant in many circumstances, and the agency routinely uses internal administrative warrants (Forms I-200 and I...
Sanctuary cities do not create federal immunity; they are local or state policies that limit some forms of cooperation with federal immigration authorities and expand access to services for noncitizen...
ICE’s official posture and federal law make a clear legal line: immigration authorities do not have the civil power to arrest and detain lawful U.S. citizens as part of removal proceedings . Neverthel...
Federal prosecutors most commonly rely on 18 U.S.C. § 111 (assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers) and obstruction statutes in Title 18 — frequently cited is 18 U.S.C. § 1503 (obstruction...
New ICE law‑enforcement hires receive a mix of classroom, tactical and firearms instruction at the ICE Academy operated inside the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia, s...
ICE administrative (or removal) warrants are internal agency documents signed by immigration officials rather than judges and authorize ICE to arrest a person believed removable, but they do not, by t...
Administrative ICE warrants are agency-issued documents—signed by DHS or ICE officials rather than judges—that authorize immigration officers to detain or remove an individual but, unlike judicial war...
No: as a matter of law, through civil immigration procedures, and policy recognizes that it lacks authority to “arrest and/or detain a U.S.” in . That legal rule, however, exists alongside a documente...
Federal immigration officers have statutory authority to arrest, detain and remove noncitizens and to use force under and guidelines, but those powers are not unlimited; courts, civil-rights advocates...
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’s public data classifies people it arrests into discrete criminal-history buckets—those with U.S. criminal convictions, those with pending criminal charges, and a residual “other immigration viola...
When ICE appears, the immediate priority is safety and preserving evidence: remain calm, assert legal rights (including the right to remain silent and to refuse consent to a search), document agent id...
Yes — ICE agents can and have physically detained people who are U.S. citizens when agents believe those people are not citizens, and such detention can be prolonged until citizenship is proved or a c...
The is a constitutional principle that forbids the federal government from ordering state legislatures or officials to administer or enforce federal regulatory programs, grounded in the and a line of ...
The EB‑1A “extraordinary ability” classification is a first‑preference employment‑based immigrant category for people who can demonstrate sustained national or international acclaim in the sciences, a...
Administrative ICE warrants are internal immigration documents signed by ICE or DHS officials that authorize immigration officers to arrest or effect a removal order but are not reviewed or signed by ...
Removal (immigration) proceedings are civil, not criminal, and that legal classification drives a narrower bundle of procedural protections for noncitizens: they have the right to a hearing and due pr...
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...