New Power For ICE?

America has its band of legal thugs called ICE….they can do whatever they want with no oversight…..they can detain citizens, jail citizens, arrest protesters, all in all just intimidate the citizenry….and now there is a new power the Gestapo has in its hands….

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by the AP, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches. The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities. The shift comes as the Trump administration dramatically expands immigration arrests nationwide, deploying thousands of officers under a mass deportation campaign that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.

For years, immigrant advocates, legal aid groups, and local governments have urged people not to open their doors to immigration agents unless they are shown a warrant signed by a judge. That guidance is rooted in Supreme Court rulings that generally prohibit law enforcement from entering a home without judicial approval. The ICE directive directly undercuts that advice at a time when arrests are accelerating under the administration’s immigration crackdown. The memo itself has not been widely shared within the agency, according to a whistleblower complaint, but its contents have been used to train new ICE officers who are being deployed into cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown. New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.

It is unclear how broadly the directive has been applied in immigration enforcement operations. The AP witnessed ICE officers ramming through the front door of the home of a Liberian man, Garrison Gibson, with a deportation order from 2023 in Minneapolis on Jan. 11, wearing heavy tactical gear and with their rifles drawn. Documents reviewed by the AP revealed that the agents only had an administrative warrant—meaning there was no judge who authorized the raid on private property. Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in an e-mailed statement to the AP that everyone the department serves with an administrative warrant has already had “full due process and a final order of removal.”

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How much longer will Americans tolerate these actions by a pack of cowardly goons that hide their identities and show no concern for the Constitution.

Any American that condones these tactics and violations is no more American that my Hyundai auto.

Time to flood the streets of Minneapolis with people…..true American patriots not the bozos that worship the Orange dickhead.

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Personal note:

My daughter has to work two days a week in New Orleans…..her mother is Thai and of course I am a whitey she appears more Hispanic than Asian and I am always concerned that she may get caught up in of of the damn stupid ‘sweeps’…..for that reason I have her text me every two hours and immediately if she gets caught up in some illegal sweep.

I worry for her safety.

Somebody needs to do something…..I would say Congress but they only offer lip service….then who?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

10 thoughts on “New Power For ICE?

  1. SCARY to read about your daughter! ALL of this is so overwhelming … not only for the people involved, but that WE (via the vote) have allowed it to happen by electing a tyrant/wannabe dictator as our POTUS.

    I recently read that ICE is present in Medford, Oregon, which is just under 100 miles from where we live!

    1. Added note: Medford is closer to us than Portland where they are already present, which is why it’s a bit unnerving.

    2. Nan I am concerned and my state has trying to pass a law about more involvement of ICE….will write about it next week. chuq

  2. The people protesting in the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul are already agitators and insurrectionists and terrorists …according to some perspectives …are theirs the next doors to be broken down? Crystal Night?

    1. Anyone the looks at ICE and then calls these people agitators is an idiot…..I believe the agitation came from the thugs in ICE,. chuq

  3. I can see why you are worried about your daughter, chuq. Smashing down doors with no warrant and dragging people out is the SS on the streets of America, in plain sight.
    Best wishes, Pete.

  4. The time for worry has passed — we must now find a way to survive because this is only going to get worse and worse…the people, of course, like in wartime germany, will do nothing…

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