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Wed Jan 21, 2026, 05:12 PM 20 hrs ago

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a jud [View all]

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🚨HOLY CRAP. 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 and private conversation.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T22:00:51.815Z

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door.

It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T22:09:28.907Z

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels.

Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T22:28:39.987Z
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When the chief executive has immunity the entire administration has immunity- he can pardon them. Blues Heron 20 hrs ago #1
This is huge - get thee to the greatest page malaise 20 hrs ago #2
Huge! yellow dahlia 20 hrs ago #3
At what point will a court do something? yellow dahlia 20 hrs ago #4
At what point will Republicans in Congress do something? Pinback 18 hrs ago #30
It truly should be a red line for the members of Congress. yellow dahlia 18 hrs ago #32
For whom? ICE? Congress? slightlv 18 hrs ago #41
It is of course a rhetorical question. Pinback 18 hrs ago #43
You're right, of course, Pinback. slightlv 17 hrs ago #48
My sense of justice has also been offended, for many years. Shipwack 16 hrs ago #51
Normally HUGE, BUT bluestarone 20 hrs ago #5
WTF?!? 2naSalit 20 hrs ago #6
No one is safe. poli-junkie 20 hrs ago #7
Sheesh - that sums it up. calimary 2 hrs ago #59
This must stop! SheltieLover 20 hrs ago #8
This behavior started a revolution 250 years ago The Blue Flower 20 hrs ago #9
I will refrain from saying what I think about that statement. OldBaldy1701E 20 hrs ago #11
Honest question... sop 19 hrs ago #16
No. n/t malthaussen 19 hrs ago #18
A massive stroke? Heart attack? Fall from heights? Moostache 18 hrs ago #44
I wish, but honestly, No. n/t slightlv 17 hrs ago #49
Not at this point. OldBaldy1701E 3 hrs ago #57
This should be the top story SamuelTheThird 20 hrs ago #10
It should be the ONLY story. But its not... Moostache 18 hrs ago #47
The media is repuglican. Bush made sure of that slightlv 17 hrs ago #50
I can pilfer your house for valuables, too. (You won't need them.) Duncan Grant 20 hrs ago #12
And the Roberts court knew that this would happen. They are behind this abomination. erronis 20 hrs ago #13
Kick dalton99a 20 hrs ago #14
Maybe it's different across the country... paleotn 19 hrs ago #15
First time I visited Appalachia in TN Farmer-Rick 19 hrs ago #20
That happened to me in Texas. Ilsa 18 hrs ago #31
That dude may have had a whiskey still out back. Pinback 18 hrs ago #33
Unless the goons were in local sheriff or highway patrol cars, my rural neighbors allegorical oracle 18 hrs ago #25
Which is exactly the scenario they are hoping for. progressoid 18 hrs ago #29
Unless they are murdered by legals. Ilsa 18 hrs ago #37
Then they become martyrs for the cause. progressoid 18 hrs ago #40
Trump would love to parade around with the dead bodies of a few ICE agents. hunter 18 hrs ago #39
This is the problem... malthaussen 19 hrs ago #17
If the public doesn't know, what's to stop a homeowner from justifiably shooting them? ChicagoTeamster 19 hrs ago #19
Even if the public does know. Susan Calvin 18 hrs ago #42
What policy? If you're home is being violently broken into by people who won't announce their office ChicagoTeamster 12 hrs ago #52
I'm not quite sure why you're yelling at me. Susan Calvin 6 hrs ago #53
I'm not yelling at you, I'm just pointing out that this happens and these ICE agents will get themselves shot ChicagoTeamster 4 hrs ago #55
Someone else will get killed.... SergeStorms 19 hrs ago #21
Todd Lyons wrote the memo. Impeach him! surfered 19 hrs ago #22
Don't ICE officers get paid more when they pick people up? Botany 19 hrs ago #23
A leaked memo shows ICE agents have been authorized by the Trump administration to illegally force entry into homes LetMyPeopleVote 19 hrs ago #24
True irony -- the memo's title is "Protecting the American People Against Invasion". allegorical oracle 18 hrs ago #28
I think I've heard them refer to this in videos online. Quanta 18 hrs ago #26
The Nixon White House would be proud of a good break-in bucolic_frolic 18 hrs ago #27
Cain't get a civil war for nothin'. Kid Berwyn 18 hrs ago #34
Smoking Gun James48 18 hrs ago #35
Here is the actual document they use SalamanderSleeps 18 hrs ago #36
ICE says its officers are allowed to enter homes without a judicial warrant, 2025 memo shows LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago #38
I'm not a lawyer but... Takket 18 hrs ago #45
K&R UTUSN 18 hrs ago #46
Kick orangecrush 5 hrs ago #54
the don't tread on me crowd is silent... oh wait, that's because it's don't tread on "me." themaguffin 3 hrs ago #56
Makes me wonder what other secret memos are floating around..... 70sEraVet 2 hrs ago #58
No shit - Stephen Miller has been staying up nights FakeNoose 58 min ago #61
And yet Jeffries does not plan to whip his Dem minority in the House to vote against ICE funding. You know, PatrickforB 2 hrs ago #60
So This Was The Authority DallasNE 17 min ago #62
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