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WHISTLEBLOWERS DISCLOSE HIDDEN DHS POLICY THAT ENCOURAGES ICE AGENTS
TO BREAK INTO HOMES WITHOUT WARRANTS  
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WhistleblowerAid.org
January 21, 2026
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_ Two anonymous WhistleblowerAid.org clients have come forward with
evidence that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has authorized
– and even trained – ICE agents to forcibly enter homes without
consent or a judicial warrant. _

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Whistleblowers Reveal the Directive was Rolled out in Secret and
Briefed Verbally to Prevent Oversight

Two anonymous WhistleblowerAid.org clients have come forward
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to the U.S. Senate with evidence that the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) has authorized – and even trained – Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to forcibly enter homes without
consent or a judicial warrant.  The whistleblowers assert that this
is a flagrant violation of the Fourth Amendment.This disclosure is
particularly timely and relevant given recent news reports of ICE
officers breaking into homes, including those of U.S. citizens,
without a judicial warrant and forcibly removing the residents.

The disclosure
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submitted by WhistleblowerAid.org to the U.S. Senate, focuses on a
secretive memo issued by Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons on May 12,
2025. That memo authorizes ICE agents to rely on a Form I-205, an
administrative warrant of removal/deportation to forcibly enter
someone’s home. This “policy” flies in the face of longstanding
federal law enforcement training material and policies, all rooted in
constitutional assessments. In other words: the Form I-205 does not
authorize ICE agents to enter a home. Training new recruits, many of
whom have zero prior law enforcement training or experience, to
seemingly disregard the Fourth Amendment, should be of grave concern
to everyone. 

U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said today:

“Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy
authorizing its agents to kick down your door and storm into your
home. It is a legally and morally abhorrent policy that exemplifies
the kinds of dangerous, disgraceful abuses America is seeing in real
time. In our democracy, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the
government is barred from breaking into your home without a judge
giving a green light. Government agents have no right to ransack your
bedroom or terrorize your kids on a whim or personal desire. I am
deeply grateful to brave whistleblowers who have come forward and put
the rights of their fellow Americans first.”

“My Republican colleagues who claim to value personal rights against
government overreach now have an opportunity and obligation to prove
that rhetoric is real. They must hold hearings and join me in
demanding the Trump Administration answer for this lawless policy.”

“No court has ever found that ICE agents have such legal authority
to enter homes without a judicial warrant,” said Whistleblower Aid
Senior Vice President and Special Counsel David Kligerman. “This
administration’s secretive policy advocates conduct that the Supreme
Court has described as ‘the chief evil against which the wording of
the Fourth Amendment is directed’ – that is the warrantless
physical entry of a home.’ This is precisely what the Fourth
Amendment was created to prevent.”  

What is particularly concerning is that while the memo is labelled
“All-Hands”, it was allegedly not widely distributed. Instead, the
disclosure claims that the memo was rolled out in a secretive manner
in which some agents were verbally briefed while others were allowed
to view it but not keep a copy. It was reportedly clear that anyone
who openly spoke out against this new directive would be fired. 

Kligerman continued, “If ICE believes that this policy is consistent
with the law, why not publicize it? Perhaps they’ve hidden it
precisely because it cannot withstand legal scrutiny.  Policies which
impact fundamental constitutional rights, particularly one which the
Supreme Court has called the greatest of equals among the Bill of
Rights, should be discussed openly with the American people. It cannot
be undone by hidden policy memos.” 

The disclosure comes as ICE expands large-scale enforcement operations
nationwide, raising the risk that these warrantless home entries will
increase the likelihood that agents will enter the wrong home or
residences of U.S. citizens. In a recent case, a federal district
court judge in Minnesota ruled that ICE violated the “Fourth
Amendment” when it “forcibly entered” the home to arrest someone
subject to a final order of removal “without his consent and without
a judicial warrant.” 

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