Overview
- ICE has told field offices to avoid entering private homes without a judge’s warrant, according to multiple DHS sources cited by NBC News.
- Arrests in and around immigration courts have fallen, and in February ICE told officers to make courthouse arrests only when the person is already targeted for deportation.
- Manhattan’s U.S. attorney said his office wrongly defended an ICE memo that he acknowledged never covered immigration court arrests, citing agency attorney error.
- Civil-rights and immigrant groups are seeking court orders to halt courthouse arrests and to block ICE’s use of administrative warrants, which are forms signed by ICE officers rather than judges, for home entries.
- Other tactics continue, including arrests during routine ICE check-ins and detention without bond that several federal rulings have allowed, leaving many immigrants facing detention even without criminal records.