"And we just got this new information overnight. The Associated Press was the first to report that ICE is changing its policy. And it is now allowing its agents to forcibly enter homes without a warrant, and I just want to be clear, based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone on a final order of removal. Do you think this sharp turn from ICE's policy and from normal policing tactics is a violation of the Constitution's Fourth Amendment?"
"Americans should be terrified that this secret ICE policy authorizes agents to break down doors and ransack through their homes, arresting or detaining people without a judicial warrant, Blumenthal replied, adding: There's a critical difference between that administrative warrant, which is signed by an ICE officer or a deportation official, and a judicial warrant where a judge and a court have to find that there is causeprobable causeto enter someone's home."
The Associated Press reported a leaked Homeland Security memorandum authorizing ICE agents to enter homes without judicial warrants to arrest individuals under final orders of removal. The memorandum permits use of administrative warrants signed by ICE or deportation officials instead of judicial warrants based on a judge's probable-cause finding. Legal and civil-rights observers characterize the change as a violation of Fourth Amendment protections for privacy in the home. The acting director of ICE authored the memorandum, which is circulating within the agency and appearing in training. Separate accounts allege patterns of illegal detention, poor conditions, and denial of medical care and phone access, and a whistleblower provided the memorandum to investigators.
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