Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are trained to enter suspects' homes when possessing an administrative warrant, whistleblowers say.
Two anonymous whistleblowers have provided evidence to U.S. senators that shows the Department of Homeland Security has altered its policy on administrative warrants to encourage officers to use them to gain access to suspects while they are inside their homes, Whistleblower Aid announced on Wednesday.
A May 12 memo provided to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., indicates that federal ICE officers can forcibly enter people's homes when they have an administrative warrant, which is not the same as a judicial warrant that has been signed by a judge.
"Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door and storm into your home," Blumenthal said.
"It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time."
Homeland Security and its various agencies use I-205 forms, which are administrative warrants that ICE officials say enable its officers to force their way into homes if a judge has issued a removal order, NBC News reported.
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