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.

  • PhatalFlaw@lemmy.world
    166·
    14 hours ago

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

    • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
      22·
      14 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”.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
      9·
      12 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.

    • Pavidus@lemmy.world
      10·
      13 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·
        12 hours ago

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