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Immigration statutes like 8 U.S.C. § 1357 shape agency authority to arrest and the factual predicates for charges
Federal law supplies multiple criminal statutes that prosecutors use to punish obstructing or impeding federal officers during immigration enforcement, most commonly 18 U.S.C. § 111 (assaulting, resis...
ICE does have legal powers to arrest people, and those powers can extend to someone who disobeys an officer’s lawful command if that disobedience amounts to a criminal offense—for example resisting, o...
Federal immigration officers operate under statutory authority and constitutional constraints that shape what they may do in states; but cannot lawfully commandeer state officials to enforce federal l...
ICE is operating under aggressive new policies that the administration defends as lawful and necessary, but a growing body of litigation, court rulings, state lawsuits and civil‑rights reporting paint...
The statutory text courts parse when assessing is concentrated in 8 U.S.C. § 1357(a), which authorizes immigration officers “power without warrant” to interrogate aliens and to arrest aliens under spe...