"The Times reported on Friday that the memo, which was signed by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Todd Lyons, "expands the ability of lower-level ICE agents to carry out sweeps rounding up people they encounter and suspect are undocumented immigrants, rather than targeted enforcement operations in which they set out, warrant in hand, to arrest a specific person.""
"However, the memo declares this standard to be "unreasoned" and "incorrect," saying that agents should feel free to carry out arrests so long as the suspect is "unlikely to be located at the scene of the encounter or another clearly identifiable location once an administrative warrant is obtained.""
""This memo bends over backwards," Shuchart said, "to say that ICE agents have nothing but green lights to make an arrest without even a supervisor's approval.""
An internal legal memo signed by ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons expands lower-level agents' authority to conduct warrantless arrests beyond targeted operations. The memo replaces the previous 'flight risk' standard with a test allowing arrests when a suspect is 'unlikely to be located at the scene of the encounter or another clearly identifiable location once an administrative warrant is obtained.' The guidance permits broader sweeps detaining people encountered and suspected of being undocumented rather than arrests under an administrative warrant for a named individual. Former ICE officials warn the change grants agents wide discretion without supervisor approval and prompts constitutional Fourth Amendment concerns.
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