{"id":560594,"date":"2026-04-02T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560594\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:42:09","slug":"immigrants-and-u-s-citizens-sue-dhs-over-unconstitutional-home-entry-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/560594\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrants and U.S. Citizens Sue DHS over Unconstitutional \u201cHome Entry\u201d Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Protect Democracy, the ACLU, the ACLU of Minnesota, the ACLU of D.C., and Dorsey & Whitney filed suit<\/a> against DHS, ICE, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on behalf of immigrants and U.S. citizens who have been impacted by DHS\u2019s warrantless home entry policy.<\/p>\n

The complaint alleges that ICE\u2019s secret internal memo titled \u201cUtilizing Form I-205, Warrant of Removal,\u201d (the \u201cHome Entry Memo\u201d) violates the Fourth Amendment and longstanding DHS policy. The memo, secretly <\/a>issued in May, establishes a policy authorizing ICE agents to forcibly enter and search homes with an administrative form instead of a judicial warrant. The administrative form, Form I-205, is drafted, signed, and issued by a DHS official, not a judge.<\/p>\n

Recognizing that the policy is flagrantly unconstitutional, the complaint alleges that DHS strictly controlled access to the memo, telling individuals to review the document in the presence of a supervisor and not to take notes on its contents. DHS\u2019 internal memo became public in late January only after it was reportedly<\/a> leaked by whistleblowers, who revealed that the memo was being used to train new ICE agents.<\/p>\n

\u201cMasked and heavily armed ICE agents used a battering ram to illegally break into my home, point guns at my family, arrest my husband, and put all of our lives in danger, including my nine-year-old daughter,\u201d said lead plaintiff Teyana Gibson Brown. \u201cI am bringing this case with my husband because our family now feels unsafe in our home due to the government\u2019s illegal policy. No person or family in the United States should have to go through what we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

This lawsuit was filed on behalf of six individuals who have been the targets of forced home entries without a judicial warrant and reasonably fear that they will be targeted again.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a U.S. citizen I have always been taught that I have basic constitutional rights. Despite this, ICE broke into my home without a warrant and pointed guns at me and my family before detaining my family members,\u201c said plaintiff Jeyli Salguero. \u201cThe months of anxiety and turmoil I have experienced since that day have been agonizing and I don\u2019t want to see this happen to other families.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Plaintiffs are seeking to vacate and set aside the policy under the Administrative Procedures Act and a declaration that the policy is unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. Read more about the plaintiffs and their stories here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is yet another example of the executive branch trampling our most basic constitutional rights,\u201d said Kristy Parker, Special Counsel at Protect Democracy. \u201cThis scenario\u2014 armed government officials rummaging through people\u2019s homes at will without the approval of a judge\u2014 is exactly why the Fourth Amendment was created and one of the motivations for the American Revolution. The Trump administration\u2019s forced home entry policy is another king-like power grab that is being used to target both immigrants and U.S. citizens, which is why we are asking a court to set aside the policy and declare it unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n

“The lawsuit we filed today is not an immigration case. This is a case about the right of all people in the United States, including U.S. citizens, to privacy and security in their own home,\u201d said Ben Casper, ACLU-MN staff attorney. \u201cFederal leaders tried to keep their policy that allows agents to enter homes without a warrant hidden from the public. They know that sending masked, federal agents armed with military rifles \u2014 but not a judicial warrant \u2014 to invade homes is a violation of both the Fourth Amendment and their oath to uphold the Constitution.”<\/p>\n

“The Fourth Amendment is clear: a warrant only lets the government enter your home if it is signed by a judge,\u201d said Michael Perloff, senior staff attorney at ACLU-D.C. \u201cPolice officers throughout the country comply with this rule. ICE should not, and legally cannot, create its own special exemption from the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information visit: protectdemocracy.org\/work\/home-entry-memo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, Protect Democracy, the ACLU, the ACLU of Minnesota, the ACLU of D.C., and Dorsey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-560594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=560594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}