https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-policy-officers-enter-homes-immigration-without-judicial-warrant-rcna255305A May 2025 internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement document shows that the agency told officers and agents they can forcibly enter homes of people subject to deportation without a warrant signed by a judge.The memo, dated May 12 and which reads that it is from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, was shared with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., by two whistleblowers.It says that ICE agents are allowed to forcibly enter the home of a person using an administrative warrant if a judge has issued a “final order of removal.” Administrative warrants permit officers and agents to make arrests and are different from judicial warrants, which a judge or magistrate signs allowing entry into a home.Lyons notes in the document that detaining people “in their residences” based solely on administrative warrants is a change from past procedures.“Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone to arrest aliens subject to final orders of removal in their place of residence, the DHS Office of General Counsel has recently determined that the U.S. Constitution, the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the immigration regulations do not prohibit relying on administrative warrants for this purpose,” the memo reads.The memo says that agents may “arrest and detain aliens” in their place of residence who are subject to a final order of removal issued by an immigration judge, the Board of Immigration Appeals, or a U.S. district or magistrate judge.The memo says under general guidelines that officers and agents using a method called Form I-205 must “knock and announce” and that “in announcing, officers and agents must state their identity and purpose.”The Associated Press first reported on the document Wednesday.
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that immigrants in the country illegally who are served administrative warrants or I-205’s, which are removal or deportation warrants, “have had full due process and a final order of removal from an immigration judge.”“The officers issuing these administrative warrants also have found probable cause,” McLaughlin said. “For decades, the Supreme Court and Congress have recognized the propriety of administrative warrants in cases of immigration enforcement.”The group Whistleblower Aid, which is representing the whistleblowers who shared the memo with Congress, said, “This ‘policy’ flies in the face of longstanding federal law enforcement training material and policies, all rooted in constitutional assessments.”“In other words: the Form I-205 does not authorize ICE agents to enter a home,” the group said in a statement. “Training new recruits, many of whom have zero prior law enforcement training or experience, to seemingly disregard the Fourth Amendment, should be of grave concern to everyone.”Blumenthal said in a statement that the memo was “allegedly not widely distributed” despite being labeled “all-hands.” A copy of the memo shared with Congress is addressed to “All ICE Personnel.”“Instead, the disclosure claims that the memo was rolled out in a secretive manner in which some agents were verbally briefed while others were allowed to view it but not keep a copy,” Blumenthal said. “It was reportedly clear that anyone who openly spoke out against this new directive would be fired.”The memo is dated less than five months into the second term of President Donald Trump, who campaigned on mass deportations.Immigration crackdowns by the Trump administration against several Democrat-run cities have sparked protests and unrest, most recently in Minneapolis after an ICE agent fatally shot a U.S. citizen, Renee Good, on Jan. 7.
“It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time,” Blumenthal said. “In our democracy, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the government is barred from breaking into your home without a judge giving a green light.”The ICE memo says that Form I-205 is not a search warrant and “should only be used to enter the residence of the subject alien to conduct an immigration arrest.”Under the Trump administration, roughly 220,000 people have been arrested by ICE officers in the nine months Jan. 20 to Oct. 15, according to data shared by a project in December.Around 75,000 of those have been people with no criminal records, according to the data.The figures were shared by the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project, which obtained them through a lawsuit brought against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
This is now a party thread. Post tunes to deport immigrants to >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZHpWH80rKc
>>1479927And that's a good thing. Deport all criminal illegals.
A memo isn't overriding a fucking amendment. What the fuck? This is the easiest lawsuit possible.
>>1479937Supreme court says its ok.
>>1479938Where? Where does it say that? They didn't say this.
>>1479936They've already broken into the home of a US citizen who happened to be an old man. But I guess you're pretending to be American so you're just enjoying all this.
>>1479940Accidents happen. It's unfortunate, but not a reason to abandon enforcing the law.
>>1479941Yeah yeah, get your giggles in, pajeet.
>>1479942Save your crocodile tears for reddit, chomo
>>1479943classic projection esl shill
>ICE says they don't need warrants to enter homes >It says that ICE agents are allowed to forcibly enter the home of a person using an administrative warrant if a judge has issued a “final order of removal.” OP is a fag, clearly
>>1479948why do you want ice agents to get shot for breaking and entering
>>1479948This is different; they're using warrants for an arrest to enter homes, which usually requires a separate warrant.
ITT: foreign shills celebrating americans giving up their rightsit'd be funnier if they weren't so apocalypticly retarded
>>1479951You don't have a right to be in the country illegally, Ramesh
esl shill is redeeming again
>>1479941>but not a reason to abandon enforcing the law.Then they should get a warrant dipshit
>conservatives 10 years agoDONT TREAD ON ME>conservicucks in current yearTREAD ON ME DADDY I LOVE BIG GOVERNMENT
>>1479953its weird, because everyone knows that they get fucked in the ass by a notorious MS-13 tranny every night.It'd be a shame if ICE showed up and destroyed their home their home looking for the shills throbby mommy
>>1479954They don't need one. Learn our laws before trying to debate them, Ramesh.
>>1479957Giving instructions to ignore the law doesn't mean it doesn't apply dipshit.
>>1479958What part of "ice doesn't need a warrant" did you not understand?
>>1479960i know you're literally not american, but the americans who are ICE better count down to their trials for their crimes against humanity, it's only a matter of time
>>1479948administrative warrant is not the same as a judicial warrant
>>1479957A memo doesn't override the fourth amendment. That's it. That's the end of it. That's the law. You need a warrant to enter homes.
>>1479960They do and saying they don't doesn't change that. There's a reason these retards try to rush deportations and block legal council, because a judge would see how many laws they broke in the process and put them in their place.Of course, this has its own issues. ICE was so eager to deport the other day they accidentally turned a potential 15 years in prison into a free ride back home by deporting a jewel thief accused of helping steal over 100 million before he could go to trial.
>>1479950Wait, I'm a little confused. So there's two warrants? One to justify the probable cause and the other to enter the home?
>>1479964They're not rushing deportations, though. We literally know where the immigrants are going, dude. They're being sent to private prisons.
>>1479966>They're not rushing deportations, though.You sure?>https://www.kare11.com/article/syndication/associatedpress/immigration-officials-allow-suspect-in-100m-jewelry-heist-to-self-deport-avoiding-trial/616-df544988-aff8-4fff-a566-edfb1e3937db
>>1479965Yes. Police get one warrant to arrest someone if they spot them in public, but in order to enter someone's home, even the suspect's, they need another permitting them to enter private property. This is enshrined by the 4th Amendment.
>>1479963The fourth amendment doesn't apply to illegal aliens.
>>1479969Yes it does retard. Hence why police can't just raid property owned by foreigners whenever they want.
>>1479970We can and we will. Illegal aliens have no rights.
>>1479971then stop posting esl shill. stop breathing while you're at it
>>1479971You can't. And you'll be prosecuted for ignoring the constitution and doing so anyway.
>>1479973We can literally send you to a gulag in El Salvadore and there's nothing in the constitution that says we can't.
>>1479974>wenobody will ever believe you're american
>>1479976Did you type this while staring at yourself in the mirror, Ramesh?
esl shill is projecting again
>>1479969So why are the breaking into citizens homes and detaining them? This never happened under Obama, and he deported millions more than what Trump has managed.
>>1479974The constitution actually does say something about that. It also says the sheer amount of power abuses deserve a hanging.
>>1479981Hangings are for traitors. You know, betraying your country to outsiders? That kind of thing?
>>1479982>Brutalizing and murdering citizens>Blatantly ignoring the constitution>Invading states based on whether their politicians have been critical of the president instead of actual illegal countThe founding fathers would've left your bodies to rot at the end of a rope. ICE has abused its authority so badly it's legitimately imitating what led to the revolution in the first place. By all counts they have betrayed their oaths to the american people as members of the federal government.
>>1479982outsiders? like faggot shills such as yourself? yeah, you're right
>>1479980>citizens
>>1479981It doesn't, actually. ICE is operating entirely within the letter of the law.
>>1479986I'm sorry, did they not get caught repeatedly doing that?
