US EditionReport: ICE Memo Allows Forced Home Entry With Admin Warrants
The ICE memo directs officers to use force for home entry with administrative warrants alone, reversing prior Fourth Amendment-based guidance amid a mass deportation push.
- The Associated Press obtained a memo dated May 12, 2025, showing Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorized using I-205 administrative warrants to enter homes and arrest people with final removal orders.
- The memo cites a legal determination by the DHS Office of the General Counsel that administrative warrants do not violate the Constitution, coinciding with rapid arrests and hiring for the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign.
- Operationally, it limits residential entries to after 6 a.m. and before 10 p.m., directs ICE officers to knock, identify themselves, and allows necessary force if occupants refuse admittance, while new hires follow this memo despite conflicting training materials.
- Video and witness accounts from Minneapolis show forcible entry, while training and deployment of ICE officers follow the memo prompting legal challenges and immigrant-friendly local government pushback.
- Two anonymous whistleblowers represented by Whistleblower Aid lawfully disclosed the memo to Congress after limited supervised access, while advocates say it conflicts with Fourth Amendment protections.
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Senator Who Revealed Controversial New ICE Memo Says It ‘Desecrates the Rule of Law’
J. Scott Applewhite/APSen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, said the Trump administration is intentionally trying to blur the lines between judicial warrants and the ones immigration agents are drawing up to enter people’s homes against their will.Federal immigration officers have claimed sweeping new power to make arrests on private property, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo first made public Wed…
New ICE policy allows officers to enter homes without a judge’s warrant
With an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo that allows officers to enter homes without a judicial warrant, the Trump administration is seeking to usurp guardrails that are enshrined in the Fourth Amendment and have protected Americans civil liberties for centuries, experts in constitutional law and immigration policy told CNN.Even in an administration that has always pushed an expansive vision of its law enforcement authority, the directiv…
ICE policy memo alarming Hawaii civil rights advocates
It's been more than two weeks since an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minnesota, setting off daily protests nationwide. And now there are new questions being raised about ICE's warrants to enter homes.
Whistleblowers expose ICE memo that disregards the 4th Amendment
Two anonymous DHS officials have exposed through Whistleblower Aid a secret memorandum from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons that authorizes federal immigration police to forcibly enter homes with only “administrative” paperwork, not a search warrant issued by a judge.
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