One important story I don't want to get lost in the time jump shuffle now that I'm back at work, is the evidence that Trump's Department of Homeland Security no longer considers the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution to be valid law. Or at least it sure looks that way given the orders they've been training up new ICE Gestapo pigs on.
Several months back, I wrote about news that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, and Trump's nazi shadow chancellor Stephen Miller wanted to use ICE to enter homes without a judicial warrant; which would be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment, based on previous SCOTUS precedent. Well, thanks to leaks obtained by the Associated Press, we now know that they're actually doing it; even if they're clearly trying to keep that a secret. This article is kind of trash, but AP broke the story so I guess we're going with it.
https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-trump-00d0ab0338e82341fd91b160758aeb2d
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says
"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 Associated Press, 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."
Despite the weasel words the AP used here, understanding this issue isn't that complicated. The Constitution says police can't enter your home without a judicial warrant, except in some very narrow circumstances involving probable cause. This should mean that ICE can't just break into your house to "round people up" without a judge's warrant, but the Trump regime is arguing that they don't need to respect the US constitution for "reasons" and because ICE has never tried this before, nobody is entirely sure a 6-3 fascist high SCOTUS won't ignore the entire legal history of the United States to allow it some day.
Furthermore, the Gestapo is arguing that because they have an administrative final removal order, that is just as good as a warrant. Which is farcical, because immigration "judges" are literally employees of DHS and don't have to be anywhere near as qualified as a judge has to be, so allowing the Gestapo to violate the constitution because of an administrative order issued by "judges" who work for DHS is pretty much akin to letting the Gestapo decide who the Gestapo can legally violate the constitution to kidnap.
Whether the fascist Roberts court allows it or not, this is patently illegal and morally unconscionable; but I guess the maggots at the Associated Press are too afraid they'll be next on Trump's media revenge tour to say that out loud. As the AP itself notes, DHS is clearly aware that this bullshit is illegal because they're not actually distributing the memo to the Gestapo itself, but rather keeping it on a need to know basis and using it to train new ICE goons who don't know Kristi Noem is telling them to break the law. Finally, please be aware that none of this is hypothetical; in one of the most tense moments (so far) of the occupation of Minneapolis by Gestapo troops, ICE was literally filmed smashing an older, clearly harmless man's door down to kidnap him in clear violation of the US Constitution.
"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 Associated Press 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."
Folks, I'm not going to blow sunshine up your ass here; if you want to know how the Trump regime makes it "legal" to send the Gestapo door to door to root out their "enemies," this is what the process that leads there looks like. A fascist police state built to disappear migrants is a fascist police state that can disappear anyone.
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