{"id":60738,"date":"2025-04-09T07:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60738"},"modified":"2025-04-09T07:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:07:25","slug":"alcu-open-letter-to-federal-magistrate-judges-within-the-ninth-circuit-on-8-u-s-c-%c2%a7-1324-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60738","title":{"rendered":"ALCU: Open Letter to Federal Magistrate Judges Within the Ninth Circuit on [8 U.S.C. \u00a7] 1324 Warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ALCU: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/documents\/open-letter-to-federal-magistrate-judges-within-the-ninth-circuit-on-section-1324-warrants\">Open Letter to Federal Magistrate Judges Within the Ninth Circuit on [8 U.S.C. \u00a7] 1324 Warrants<\/a> (April 8, 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>We write to address significant questions that may arise in the context of applications for<br \/>warrants to search for evidence of violations of 8 U.S.C. \u00a7 1324, which prohibits, inter alia,<br \/>concealing, harboring, or shielding from detection a noncitizen who is unlawfully present, when<br \/>done with knowledge or reckless disregard of that person\u2019s immigration status. Because<br \/>consideration of such applications occurs ex parte and often on an expedited basis, and because<br \/>novel and aggressive invocations of Section 1324 may arise in the coming months, we are<br \/>publishing this open letter to help inform the decisionmaking of members of the federal bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As explained below, a number of arguments the government may advance in support of<br \/>warrants to search for evidence of violations of Section 1324 lack merit, either because they do<br \/>not satisfy the elements of a statutory violation, or because they rely on privileged conduct, such<br \/>as assertion of Fourth Amendment rights, that cannot establish criminal liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALCU: Open Letter to Federal Magistrate Judges Within the Ninth Circuit on [8 U.S.C. \u00a7] 1324 Warrants (April 8, 2025):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60739,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60738\/revisions\/60739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}