ICE Tells Agents to Break Into Homes Without a Warrant
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DHS memo declares the Fourth Amendment optional
A leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security makes it clear that the agency sees the Constitution, at most, as an inconvenience. The memo authorizes armed and masked ICE agents to enter homes without judicial warrants.
Federal immigration officers are now asserting new authority to forcibly enter homes without a warrant signed by a judge, despite a federal judge ruling such conduct unconstitutional after a family's home was broken into with only an administrative warrant.
Legal experts explain what ICE can do in public, when agents need a warrant, and how recent Supreme Court rulings may be changing the rules
Last week, the Supreme Court gave federal agents the green light to geographically, racially and linguistically profile people while carrying out immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, and in doing so, it shattered one of the bedrocks of the American legal ...
Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v. Felix is the issue of how one determines whether a ...
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and provides that warrants may only be granted upon ...