By Michael Woyton
Congress members who are still on the fence about whether or not they should approve funding for ICE and Homeland Security maybe should pay attention to what is acutally going on in the United States.
There are reports of ICE in Minnesota detaining four children, including a 5-year-old boy who was used as bait to try to gain entry into a home. What was it Ice-Ice Barbie Noem said about her agency only going after violent criminals? A 5-year-old? Really?
An elderly U.S. citizen in St. Paul had his home’s door broken down and was forcibly removed wearing only shorts, crocs and a baby blanket by ICE officers.
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Then there is the jaw-dropping story from The Associated Press about an internal ICE memo it received from whistleblower authorizing ICE officers to forcibly enter people’s homes “without a judge’s warrant.”
According to AP’s reporting, “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.”
Contents of the May 12 memo, while not widely shared within the agency, is being used to train new ICE officers “who are being deployed in cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown.”
The AP said new ICE hires are being told to “follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo.”
The memo was sent to senators by the nonprofit legal organization Whistleblower Aid which requested that Congress investigate its claims, the Washington Post reported.
David Kligerman, Whistleblower Aid’s senior vice president and special counsel, told the Post “the instructions in the memo appeared to violate the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
He said the framers of the Constitution were “most concerned, of all the rights [in the Bill of Rights], about folks being able to be safe in their homes from arbitrary government invasion.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, who was given the memo by two whistleblowers, said Americans should be terrified by this newly revealed ICE policy, according to NBC News.
“It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real time,” he said. “In our democracy, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the government is barred from breaking into your home without a judge giving a green light.”
This convicted felon of a president does not believe in the rule of law and certainly has no regard for the Constitution.
He has passed his disdain for America down to his secret lawless police force.
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