Tag: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
ICE Administrative Warrants and the Fourth Amendment
The judicial warrant requirement is now at the center of the Department of Homeland Security funding debate. In a recent Wall Street Journal editorial...
The Army Clause: A Forgotten Constitutional Check on ICE, CBP, and the Pentagon
As Congress grapples with how to use the annual appropriations process to rein in President Trump’s use of federal immigration enforcement, it faces a...
The Spirit of Liberty—Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture
Last year I wrote a guest essay for the New York Times about the media organizations that were paying Donald Trump obscene amounts of...
Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms
Congress has until Feb. 13, 2026 to pass the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill. After federal immigration agents shot and...
Can CBP Restore Its Reputation for Transparency?
Over the past several years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stood at the forefront of federal law-enforcement transparency and accountability. At a time...
Fact Checking the “Success” of Trump Border Patrol Policies
If there’s one thing that Democrats and Republicans agree on, it’s that Trump deserves credit for closing the southern border—and that the Biden administration...
The Top 10 Questions the Trump Administration Needs to Answer About Minnesota
The following ten questions concern the Trump administration’s actions in Minnesota, and in particular the ICE killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex...
What a Proper Investigation of Alex Pretti’s Killing Would Look Like
On Saturday morning shortly after 9am local time, U.S. Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old I.C.U. nurse, on the streets...
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Let Not Arrogance Be Our Doom
In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower asked the American people be strong in their faith that “all nations would reach peace...
DHS, DOJ, and Customs and Border Patrol Policies on Use of Deadly Force and Moving Vehicles
The following contains use of force policies issued by the Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol, and the Department of Justice. The...
