{"id":62967,"date":"2026-01-31T10:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62967"},"modified":"2026-01-31T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:38:42","slug":"nyt-ice-expands-power-of-agents-to-arrest-people-without-warrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62967","title":{"rendered":"NYT: ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/30\/us\/politics\/ice-expands-power-agents-warrants.html\">ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants<\/a> by Hamed Aleaziz &amp; Charlie Savage (\u201cAn internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.\u201d) <a href=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/documenttools\/e3524bab7246ffa8\/0e6654f6-full.pdf\">The memo<\/a> filed in a federal case, and the conclusion. And, with this as the standard, everyone is subjectively an &#8220;escape risk.&#8221; Where&#8217;s the objective test required? In &#8220;the law,&#8221; wherever that is [which they almost certainly haven&#8217;t been trained on, if past is prologue]?:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Immigration officers are expected to ensure they obtain administrative warrants in advance of targeted enforcement operations. If warrantless arrests become necessary under the circumstances, immigration officers must effectuate such arrests in a manner consistent with the ICE policy and the law. Immigration officers must therefore conduct an analysis of an alien&#8217;s likelihood of escape prior to effectuating a civil warrantless arrest and, as soon as practicable after the arrest, immigration officers must properly document all the likelihood of escape factors on FormI-213.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants by Hamed Aleaziz &amp; Charlie Savage (\u201cAn internal memo changed the standard from whether people are unlikely to show up for hearings to whether they could leave the scene.\u201d) &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-arrests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62977,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62967\/revisions\/62977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}