Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Constitution
- Senior Border Patrol official Sergio Guzman stated agents received updated guidance on April 4, 2025.
- President Trump vowed to increase immigration enforcement, leading to the updated legal guidance.
- The updated guidance restricts warrantless arrests by El Centro Sector agents under specific conditions.
- The new policy requires vehicle stops to be based on specific, articulable facts.
- More than 900 agents will be retrained, but some worry it's just a 'pinky swear'.
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Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Constitution
The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court it will retrain more than 900 California-based Border Patrol agents after controversial immigration sweeps in Kern County in January.
Border Patrol to retrain hundreds of California agents on how to comply with the Fourth Amendment
The Department of Homeland Security told a federal court it will retrain more than 900 California-based Border Patrol agents after controversial immigration sweeps in Kern County in January. The sweeps are the subject of a federal lawsuit against the agencies by the American Civil Liberties Union, which argued that agents targeted people solely for looking Latino or like farmworkers, violating Fourth Amendment protections against arbitrary arres…
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