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by gruez 143 days ago
>ICE says it can legally enter homes without a warrant

Source for this claim, besides the usual exemptions that are available to all law enforcement (ie. exigent circumstances)?

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Here's a representative news article about it (WaPo because they were first in the search results): https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/01/22/ice-me... (paywall-avoiding: https://archive.is/bsdv9)

They've come up with a memo saying that non-judicial warrants can let them break in. This has historically been very much not allowed.

Edit: As a quick explanation, this is more or less a separation-of-powers thing. The rule has been that for the executive to enter someone's home they need a warrant from a judge, a member of the judicial branch. They now say that an "administrative warrant" is enough, issued by an immigration judge -- but immigration judges are just executive branch employees, so this is saying that the executive can decide on its own when it wants to break into your house.

They wrote a memo saying they could.
not saying you’re wrong, but we have to get in the habit of sourcing our claims! whistleblowers testified to Congress about this memo that began circulating around mid-2025.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26499371-dhs-ice-mem...

Some people also need to get in the habit of researching a claim by themselves.
Pretty sure doing your own research turns you into a conspiracy theorist; so I don’t think we’re supposed to do that anymore.
Haha that's a good one. Maybe just do a "@grok is that true?".
No it doesn't. Conspiracy theorists don't actually do research. If they did, that might risk invalidating their theory.
At least some conspiracy theorists do selective research.
Your claim is not a source, so downvoted.

The people who replied to you provided the source: upvoted them.

Just watched this yesterday, YouTube LegalEagles: “Unbelievable ICE Memo Just Leaked”

https://youtu.be/MGr-yWEu0hc

> Source for this claim, besides the usual exemptions that are available to all law enforcement (ie. exigent circumstances)?

Context and discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGr-yWEu0hc

The TL/DR: administrative warrant vs an actual "signed off by a judge" warrant

And, to be clear, an administrative warrant IS NOT A WARRANT. It's essentially a memo.
Source for the exigent circumstances exemption ?