re: Can You Prevent ICE from Entering Your Home with no Warrant?

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"Administrative Warrants
An ICE administrative warrant is a document, issued by a federal agency such as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), purporting to document their authority to arrest a person suspected of violating immigration laws. These administrative documents are not signed by a neutral magistrate or judge but rather an immigration officer like an ICE agent or immigration judge.

An ICE administrative warrant is NOT a judicial warrant. ICE administrative warrants do not give ICE officials authority to enter a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, without consent.
If this happens—state clearly that you do not consent to them entering but do not physically resist. If ICE officials have already entered, then ask them to leave and state that you do not consent to a search."

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A January 2026 internal ICE memo indicates that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may now assert authority to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant, relying instead on administrative warrants to apprehend individuals with final removal orders. This policy shift allows entry to known addresses of individuals subject to removal, potentially bypassing the need for a warrant signed by a judge.

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Just reemphasizing stout’s answer, here…

Interesting 4th Amendment implications, IMO. I’d bet this policy wouldn’t make it through judicial scrutiny in just about ANY court.

Depends on how much weight an executable federal deportation order from a judge actually carries.

Also, I wonder if the 4th Amendment would be applicable to those identified as harboring members of federally recognized terrorist groups like Tren de Aragua who have these removal orders on them?

Wait until the next president sends ATF for MAGAs guns after labeling them domestic terrorists. Bet you’ll get different answers.

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The memo simply states they are using administrative warrants.

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Difference from Judicial Warrants:

While a judicial warrant is an order signed by a judge, an administrative warrant is signed by a federal officer. In scenarios where ICE agents present an administrative warrant, they generally cannot enter a home without the occupant's consent.

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No law enforcement should be be able to enter your home without a warrant and if there is no active investigation or criminal activity in process.

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I’m not an illegal and I’m not housing any illegals so I don’t have to worry about this scenario.

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Always the single dumbest response to questions like this.

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Stating facts commie

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they’ve shown no hesitancy to use violence against citizens

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I could argue they've shown pretty incredible restraint considering how the retards in the streets have been acting.

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Yeah because we have a legitimate legal system lmfao

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Well then take the law into your own hands if you’re feeling froggy. Not my advice.

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The question is not whether it’s wise. It isn’t.

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If that's the question then the answer is "no, it isn't."

They likely outnumber you.
They are likely better trained at handling resistance than you are at being resistant.
They likely have more firepower than you.

But this is all hype generated by Leftists in an attempt to create a false narrative of ICE agents going house-to-house without warrants and without prior intel to drag people just suspected of being here illegally from their domicile. It's bullshite.

ICE agents showing up with a warrant are acting on information on people known to be here illegally. They are also resorting to administrative warrants because the MN political machinery has decided to go all-out in stopping them from doing their jobs, even to the point of purposely releasing illegals because of their illegal status. One estimate puts the number of those accused of violent crimes AND here illegally but released in MN somewhere around 1,300 (and that's likely low).

Here are a few:

German Adriano Llangari Inga (an illegal from Ecuador):
--Charged with criminal vehicular homicide in the August 2024 death of Victoria Eileen Harwell (a Minnesota resident). A test of a blood sample collected by police about 2½ hours later found his blood alcohol content was 0.141%, still well above the legal limit. He was released on August 6, 2024 without notification to ICE. Surprise, surprise... he didn't show up for his court date so he was arrested again on May 10, 2025, on an outstanding warrant for vehicular homicide. Three days later he was released again, and again without any notification to ICE.

Leny Odemel Ramirez-Santos (an illegal from Honduras):
--Charged with sexually assaulting a child and DUI, released rather than turning him over to ICE.

Edwin Amable Ashca Ninasuta (an illegal from Ecuador):
-Charged with lewd acts with a minor, released rather than turning him over to ICE.

Lenda Neh Mama Epse George (an illegal from Cameroon):
--Charged with abusing a child and domestic violence, released rather than turning him over to ICE.

Puol Both (an illegal from Sudan):
--Charged with making terroristic threats and first-degree aggravated robbery, released rather than turning him over to ICE.

Let me be clear on this for those who may still be on the fence or are cheering for MN's defiance of arresting and deporting illegals: what the political elite supporting this are really saying is that "we don't care who has to be robbed, beaten, abused, raped or killed as long as we believe it helps our politics."