A whistleblower complaint allegedly authorizes ICE agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant. Legal experts say that could be a Constitutional violation.
WASHINGTON —
A memo in a whistleblower complaint allegedly authorizes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to enter homes without judicial warrants. Legal experts say that could be a Constitutional violation.
The Associated Press reports that an internal memo dated last year authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter certain homes without a judicial warrant. Instead, ICE officials argue that agents are acting lawfully under another type called an administrative warrant.
"A judicial warrant comes from a judge, an impartial judge," immigration attorney Rosanna Berardi said. "These administrative warrants come from ICE or DHS. They are not impartial."
Immigration lawyers argue that the action clashes with the Fourth Amendment, which protects people against unreasonable search and seizure by the government.
But, Vice President JD Vance, speaking in Minneapolis late Thursday, argued federal agents are not violating the law.
"Nobody's talking about doing immigration enforcement without a warrant. We're talking about different types of warrants that exist in our system," he said.
ICE argues that agents are making lawful arrests under administrative warrants, justifying forcible entry.
"Every illegal alien who DHS serves administrative warrants have had full due process and a final order of removal from an...
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