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Pretextual Stops

Supreme Court precedents on pretextual stops give law enforcement broad latitude, enabling immigration officers to use ordinary encounters as pretexts for immigration arrests.

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Jan 15, 2026
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How often do ICE arrests of U.S. citizens result in charges or civil suits, and what have courts ruled in those cases?

ICE’s interior arrests have increasingly swept up people without criminal convictions, producing a rising number of detentions but little publicly available, systematic data showing how often U.S. cit...

Feb 2, 2026

were there door to door or "stop and frisk" immigration checks under Obama

did carry out interior immigration enforcement that included arrests at homes and other in-person encounters, but it did not adopt a formal, nationwide “” or indiscriminate program analogous to police...

Jan 13, 2026

What legal standards determine when ICE may lawfully detain or arrest someone in a workplace or public area?

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) derives its interior arrest and detention powers primarily from federal statutes that authorize officers to arrest removable noncitizens and enforce immigrati...

Jan 7, 2026

Can ICE detain someone during a routine traffic stop without an arrest warrant?

Yes — federal immigration officers can, under federal statute and agency practice, detain someone during a traffic encounter without a judicial arrest warrant when they have the requisite authority an...

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