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How Alex Pretti’s Death Became a National Tipping Point
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A Legal Tool for Holding ICE Agents to Account, Hiding in Plain Sight
A proposal in a 1987 law review article could address a gap that makes it all but impossible to sue federal officials for violating the Constitution.
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| Source: 55% of Voters are unfavorable toward immigration enforcement agencies. Plot mis-plots the most recent 55% red point by showing it at 52% |
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| Pew survey data. Americans find most of the behavior of the immigrant agents to be "definitely unacceptable". We really dislike use of racial profiling, coward- masks, we dislike their masks, their methods, their unlawful overreach and endangering citizens. |
Guess what? DHS claims that they can bull-doze the constitution and our bill of rights.
After a pair of extra issues over the weekend, I wanted to use today’s “Long Read” to reflect on the exceptional reporting from the Associated Press (with help from a whistleblower)—that, last summer, ICE prepared (but didn’t publicize or widely circulate) a memorandum concluding that immigration officers can lawfully enter private homes without a judicial warrant so long as they have an “administrative warrant” (a piece of paper signed by an ICE officer) to arrest a non-citizen who is (allegedly) subject to a final order of removal. Just like ICE’s attempt to redesignate millions of non-citizens who have been living in the United States for years as “arriving aliens” for purposes of arrest and detention, one can draw a straight line from that memorandum to some of the more terrifying videos we’re seeing out of the Twin Cities and other jurisdictions in which federal agents are barging into private homes without consent.
Right-wing commentators (including a handful of law professors) have tried to defend the memo by twisting the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence into a pretzel. But in a remarkable Wall Street Journal op-ed, the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security suggested something else entirely—that the memo reflests “broad judicial recognition that illegal aliens aren’t entitled to the same Fourth Amendment protections as U.S. citizens,” and that non-citizens who have received a “final order of removal” are “fugitives from justice”—which is why they can be arrested based solely upon “administrative” warrants.
As I explain below, both of these claims are false. Final orders of removal are not arrest warrants.
His other great Legal analyses are here:
- Department of Labor: Posted a video captioned "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage.". Critics and experts noted its close resemblance to the Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer" ("One People, One Realm, One Leader").
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS): Published an image with the text "We’ll have our home again". This phrase is nearly identical to lyrics from a song by a group affiliated with the Männerbund, a far-right movement drawing on Germany’s ethno-nationalist Völkisch movement.
- White House: Shared a cartoon asking, "Which way, Greenland man?". Extremism experts state the phrase "Which way, Western man?" is a "key concept in neo-Nazi and white supremacist subculture".
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