An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches.

The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.

  • shani66@ani.social
    8·
    4 hours ago

    People have killed cops and got off free of charge to protect their rights. Cops. Real agents of a legitimate state.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    Sounds like a fine way to end up eating a buckshot sandwich, but I’m not one to interrupt my enemy while they’re making a mistake.

      • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
        51·
        7 hours ago

        Contrary to what many people may believe, while I’m sure the government has an idea of who has guns and who doesn’t, I doubt that idea accurately reflects reality. There are lots of ways in the US to get or make a gun that don’t involve anything beyond cash changing hands.

        It’s only a matter of time.

        • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
          3·
          3 hours ago

          Just a reminder that “the government” now includes Palantir’s dystopian surveillance suite. You can be sure that every target has a confidence rating assigned to it as to what kind of resistance can be expected. The small percentage of people that maintain a low enough profile to be able to be armed without having any sort of red flag attached are likely to be assigned a low confidence rating. Yes, there will always be a chance that there’s a mismatch. But the goons on the ground are being sent after the lowest hanging fruit. They may be mouth breathing meatsacks, but the ones calling the shots are not.

          • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            32·
            2 hours ago

            I jate to break it to you, but do you think palantir has accurate data? It’s ai. It hallucinates by design

  • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
    40·
    11 hours ago

    If ICE agents were smart they would refuse to do this. Sooner or later someone is going to defend their home against these goons, using lethal force. The government is deliberately putting these morons in harm’s way so they can use the death of an agent as political currency; people like Miller care so little about ICE agents that they wish to see them dead.

    • itistime@infosec.pub
      14·
      9 hours ago

      MAGAmind have their hands clasped in excitement. They want the violence in the streets. We can’t win direct conflict with their goons. We must not give them what they want. We must circumvent their foot soldiers, and seek direct action against their masters. Make it clear to everyone: go after the money

      • mr_sunburn@lemmy.ml
        8·
        7 hours ago

        You could look at Renee Good and see that they need no pretext at all to shoot and kill without repercussions. “Don’t feed the troll” isn’t a great strategy when it’s already gnawing on your leg.

        • mystik@lemmy.world
          1·
          53 minutes ago

          I realized a bit after posting that they’ll do what they want anyway without repercussions, so yea, you’re right.

        • Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world
          2·
          7 hours ago

          They’re looking to instigate violence to justify martial law. Your 2nd Amendment solution only gives them more opportunity to oppress and kill civilians. If you fight the federal government you will lose. Discredit them, don’t unalive them.

    • bdot@lemmy.world
      14·
      11 hours ago

      well - considering the “assassination attempt” on Trump, and how anyone speaking against the regime is a “domestic terrorist,” my money is on the idea that very soon there will be some ICE agents that have an encounter with “ANTIFA thugs,” and this is where martial law will be declared.

      Trump is insane right now, and he is big mad that he’s not getting his way in Switzerland; he’s getting bullied right back, and he’s starting to see that people are laughing at him.

      • SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 hours ago

        If that was the goal it would’ve been false flagged already. The goal really is just a simple as they don’t think their actions will have consequences, and so far they’ve been largely correct.

        • itistime@infosec.pub
          11·
          9 hours ago

          There already have been false flags. Just ones that sought to incite conflicts between protesters and the boots.

          They want blood soaked antifa bodies. It will help to normalize the coming violence to their base. They will frame how it was just. They demonize the slain. It will ratchet it to a new level.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 hours ago

      I expect that within a few months you’ll find NICS checks returning “DENY” for anyone who has ties to terrorism. The evidence of terrorism will be membership in things ike the ACLU, being a registered Democrat, having a reading level of 8th-grade or higher, etc.

    • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
      714·
      14 hours ago

      Surely it will work, right? All those school shootings and accidental murders, they were for this. To stand up to tyranny. Surely Americans won’t just roll over/cheer like they always do. Surely not. Lmao

      • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        23·
        12 hours ago

        Watching ICE target communities that have intentionally been disarmed as a result of mass shootings: lmao why don’t these dumbasses just shoot someone

      • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
        88·
        11 hours ago

        I just hope they don’t go too hard with the tweets and protests! They’re getting results! And democratic senators writing letters! Oof!

        /s

        (I support the protesters, the ICE victims, and NOT ICE, but day after day it just gets worse, and that’s all they’re doing - tweeting and marching - as ICE commit atrocity after atrocity).

        • itistime@infosec.pub
          5·
          9 hours ago

          I agree. Other vital actions need to take place. However, they are doing vital work. Not everyone can pry secrets out of their digital assets. Not everyone can slip into the homes of their masters while they sleep. No, we very much need people documenting what’s happening. We need people to helping their neighbors when ditched in poor weather by thugs.

    • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
      443·
      13 hours ago

      We already know how. It won’t.

      Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

      When ingroups do it, its castle doctrine. When outgroups do it ots terrorism. There is no law in the US. Just an uncivilized savage land now.

    • zib@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      13 hours ago

      The legal side of it would probably be unfairly weighted in ICE’s favor, but I suspect if they tried this in a place like Texas, by the time it got to court, those frozen water nazis would already be shot the hell up.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah, but there’s usually like 6 ice goons in riot gear with a lot of firepower. You hopefully kill a couple before getting shot to death yourself, and Trump doesn’t give a shit if a few of his goons die. Citizens need to take up arms and force ice out. Not hope a few get into shootouts at an occasional home here or there.

    • PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world
      166·
      12 hours ago

      Sir, this is a Wendy’s Minnesota. There’s no castle doctrine, but rather a duty to retreat.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
        9·
        10 hours ago

        Duty to retreat does not apply when you are already in your own home. It’s only when you are in public or outside of the protection of your own home.

      • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
        22·
        12 hours ago

        I could absolutely be wrong about this because I’ve never really looked it up, but I thought “duty to retreat” still allowed use of lethal force once there is nowhere left to retreat (for example, once in your own home).

        Part of those pesky “inalienable rights”.

      • Pavidus@lemmy.world
        10·
        12 hours ago

        I understand, however in the article it states “The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide…”

        There’s a reason this started in areas such as Minnesota. I fully believe this is just trial runs and laying the (il)legal framework to handle more difficult areas.

        • grue@lemmy.world
          9·
          10 hours ago

          “Nationwide” is sanewashing. It’s really expanding specifically to blue states (because its real purpose is punishing the regime’s political enemies).

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
    27·
    14 hours ago

    How long till they break into a home and find themselves in the midst of a boobytrap. Nice bucket of paint over the door, that sort of thing. Nothing harmful, just a bucket of yellow paint to mark the cowards for what they are. This is clearly criminal behavior, and needs to stop.

  • hume_lemmy@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    Trump previously: “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”

    Trump today: “Take the homes first, go through due process second.”

    • grue@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 hours ago

      Trump today: “Take the homes first, go through due process second.”

      There is no evidence for the second half of that.