Posted on 01/24/2026 7:12:45 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Since coming to the United States 30 years ago from Mexico, Fernando Perez said U.S. immigration officers have stopped by his home numerous times, but he has never once answered the door.
“There are rules and I know them,” said Perez, speaking in a mix of English and Spanish in a Home Depot parking lot where he has routinely sought work as a day laborer from contractors and people renovating their homes.
Over the decades it has become common knowledge in immigrant communities across the country to not open the door for federal immigration officers unless they show a warrant signed by a judge. The Supreme Court has long held that the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure prohibits the government’s forced entry into someone’s home.
As a result, immigration officers have had to adapt by making arrests in public, which often requires long hours of surveillance outside homes as they wait to nab someone walking to the street.
But an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press states immigration officers can forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, marking a dramatic shift that could upend the legal advice given to immigrants for decades.
The change comes as immigration arrests nationwide soar under a mass deportation campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.
Perez said officers in the past would knock, wait and then move on.
“But if they are going to start coming into my home, where I am paying the rent — they are not paying the rent — that's the last straw,” he said.
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They’ve held know-your-rights trainings for communities, passed out flyers and posted videos on social media to teach immigrants how to protect themselves.
Ahilan Arulanantham, co-faculty director of the UCLA Law School’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy who has held such trainings, called the memo 'quite disturbing.'”
I bet if he wasn’t wearing a mask during Covid the press would completely approve of the police busting into his house and forcing a vaccination.
"They’ve held know-your-rights trainings for communities, passed out flyers and posted videos on social media to teach immigrants how to protect themselves."
Additionally, They’ve held know-your-rights trainings for communities, passed out flyers and posted videos on social media to teach illegal aliens how to protect themselves by acting unlawfully.
Then you also know you broke a YUGE one when you entered the US illegally.
I don’t think this article is correct. There are federal warrants being issued by federal judges.
The article presents this as no warrants. I don’t think this is true, just bypassing local judges.
Willing to be corrected.
Candy Gram ,LOL
Exactly!
So Fernando Perez has been here around 30 years and still cannot speak US English clearly nor has he applied for citizenship.
While I realize that his ties to Meh-Hee-Ko may no longer exist and he has mucho family here in the USA, IMHO he is a silver ribbon(gold is for the really bad illegals) candidate for deportation. He has had more than enough time to get legal.
“But if they are going to start coming into my home...”
Good.
Now go back to your own country.
“But an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press states immigration officers CAN forcibly enter people’s homes WITHOUT A JUDGE’S WARRANT, marking a dramatic shift that could upend the legal advice given to immigrants for decades.
The change comes as immigration arrests nationwide soar under a mass deportation campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration that is already reshaping enforcement tactics in cities such as Minneapolis.”
I voted for this! MAGA! Get. Out.
I'm sure glad I'm not an illegal alien nor a landlord of an illegal alien. Doors aren't cheap.
There goes the deposit. /sarcasm
The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on an administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal.
So, yes you are correct. The article is leftist trash.
Absolutely.
Unless you offer to pay the rent, you cannot enter, amigos.
Since coming to the United States 30 years ago from Mexico,... Perez, speaking in a mix of English and Spanish
My grandpa came from Denmark. I only heard him say one word in Danish—’Bedstefar’ (grandpa).
My thoughts exactly! Every single illegal alien needs to skeddale back to where they came from and get in line like everyone else!
Well said.
Articulable Reasonable Suspicion should suffice.
The illegals mere presence anywhere in the country is a “crime in progress” that officers are able, and in fact obliged, to address with or without a judge’s prior approval, “private property” notwithstanding. Anyone harboring or assisting them should also be charged.
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