Know Your Rights When ICE Encounters You

Experts say ICE encounters are bounded by the Fourth Amendment: officers can question in public, but detentions require reasonable suspicion and arrests require probable cause; entering a home generally requires a warrant unless exceptions apply. A controversial Kavanaugh opinion and a leaked DHS memo have sparked debate over widening use of ethnicity as a factor and the potential expansion of administrative warrants, which could affect profiling risks and constitutional challenges. Civil remedies against federal agents are limited, with only narrow paths under the Federal Tort Claims Act.