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Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic report: Constitution on Ice: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A new report out by the Cardozo Immigration Justice Clinic on ICE immigration home raids: Constitution on Ice: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations. The executive summary: During the last two years of the Bush Administration, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) vastly expanded its use of home raid operations as a method to locate and apprehend individuals suspected of civil immigration law violations. These home raids generally involve teams of heavily armed ICE agents making predawn tactical entries into homes, purportedly to apprehend some high priority target believed to be residing therein. ICE has admitted that these are warrantless raids and, therefore, that any entries into homes require the informed consent of residents...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on July 29, 2009 (boomark / email).