Firestorm ignites as secret ICE memo authorizes agents to storm homes with no warrants

Firestorm ignites as secret ICE memo authorizes agents to storm homes with no warrants
Federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conduct an inspection operation after detaining a migrant near a Home Depot in the Little Village neighborhood, where Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is scheduled to hold a press conference, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., September 9, 2025. REUTERS/Octavio Jones

A memo newly revealed on Wednesday outlined how Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conspired to ignore the Fourth Amendment's restrictions on unreasonable search and seizure, by asserting power to enter people's homes without a warrant.

This revelation triggered outrage from legal experts and politicians on social media, with demands for answers and accountability.

"This is likely not legal and will be challenged in court," wrote attorney Eva Golinger.

"Blatantly unconstitutional. This is what a police state looks like," wrote the Republicans Against Trump account on X.

"HOLY CRAP," wrote American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick. "An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth."

"Some of the most powerful officials at DOJ have no respect for the Fourth Amendment," wrote civil rights litigator Patrick Jaicomo. "The Bondi AEA memo made that clear in the spring ... It’s still shocking to see this. Feds can’t enter homes without warrants, and warrants must be issued by judges, not ICE agents."

"Every American — Republican and Democrat — should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy," wrote Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), whose state has for weeks been flooded with ICE agents as Trump fixates on an obsession with the Somali diaspora community in Minneapolis.

"Plainly unconstitutional and unlawful," wrote former Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who temporarily left the Republican Party over his opposition to President Donald Trump.

"A whistleblower just revealed a secret ICE Memo authorizing federal agents to storm homes w/out judicial warrants," wrote former Justice Department official Brian Farnkoff. "ICE issued the memo in May and has since covered it up — disseminating it primarily verbally. It’s stunning and in blatant contravention of the Fourth Amendment."

"Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money," wrote Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). "It’s no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government."

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President Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday was such a "fiasco" that one columnist thinks Americans will look back on it as a "bright red line in history."

Trump spoke in Davos in meandering terms about how he was skeptical that NATO would come to the U.S.'s rescue if needed, even though the alliance did just that after 9/11. He also called into question Denmark's right to own Greenland and made several misleading or false statements about his domestic accomplishments.

David Rothkopf, a columnist for The Daily Beast, discussed Trump's appearance on the world's stage with Joana Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" on Wednesday.

"This is really a historical watershed," Rothkopf said. "For a hundred years, the U.S. has made building transatlantic relationships the foundation of peace and prosperity for us and for many, many people in the world. And it's over."

"It was a mess," Rothkopf said. "Trump was embarrassing. Trump was offensive. Trump was a bore. Trump was an idiot. But this is also a bright red line in history, and the world is not the world that it was when you woke up this morning, and it only promises to get worse and worse."

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The lawyer representing the family of Renee Good, the mother in Minneapolis who was killed by an immigration agent, made some shocking claims on Wednesday about the state of the Department of Justice's investigation into Good's death.

Good was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, Jonathan Ross, about two weeks ago as she was driving away from the scene of an ICE raid in her vehicle. Good's killing sparked protests and calls for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be impeached or resign. Those calls grew louder after Noem doubled down on Ross's actions and defended them, even as claims later disproved by eyewitness accounts and testimony.

Attorney Antonio Romanucci, who represented George Floyd's family following his death, discussed Good's case on a new episode of the "Legal AF' podcast. Romanucci claimed the government's stonewalling has raised preservation issues that his firm is trying to resolve.

“Very likely, there are either some bullet fragments or bullets themselves that are inside the vehicle,” Romanucci said. “There may be shell casings that wound up inside the vehicle. There may be other pieces of evidence inside that vehicle.”

He added that his firm sent a preservation letter to the DOJ last week.

“We asked them to preserve that vehicle to make sure that it's stored in a safe manner so that none of the evidence gets altered, modified, destroyed, or spoiled,” he said. “If there's any testing, it's got to be done with us present.”

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A reporter flagged a shocking irony behind Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's attempt to throw shade at a top Democrat at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday.

Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, said during a speech in Davos that California Gov. Gavin Newsom was attending the event with his "billionaire sugar daddy," Alex Soros. Soros is the son of famed philanthropist George Soros, whom the MAGA movement has sought to portray as a symbol of Democratic corruption.

Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News, noted a shocking irony in Bessent's comments. Namely, that Bessent had worked for a firm founded by Alex Soros before joining the Trump administration.

"Bessent, a former employee of Soros Fund Management, which was founded by Alex Soros' father," Sherman posted on X.

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