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House speaker says ICE is allowed to break down your door



House Speaker Mike Johnson, flanked by GOP leadership, held a press conference
ahead of a vote on the government funding bill that’s been complicated by calls
to rein in federal immigration agents.

Johnson, who boasts of having practiced “constitutional law” for two decades,
had nowhere to run to when asked to explain Fourth Amendment protections if an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement goon tries to enter someone’s home.

“So when ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's an administrative warrant and
it's issued by an immigration judge, and that is a sufficient, legal authority
to go and apprehend someone,” he said. “They have violated the law. They
crossed over our border illegally and they're here and without any right to be
here. Okay, that's what's happening.”




 



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In fact, that is not what has been “happening” in many cases, including the
recent detention of a five-year-old Minnesota child and his father, who were
taken by ICE from their driveway and sent to Texas—despite having entered the
United States legally and applied for asylum in compliance with the law.

And as the ACLU has noted, the administrative warrant that Johnson is hiding
behind does not actually grant ICE agents the authority to enter a person’s
home.

Continuing, Johnson attempted to portray Democrats’ insistence on judicial
warrants as some novel legal invention.




 



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“The controversy has [erupted],” Johnson said. “Where if someone is, you know,
they're going to be apprehended, and they run behind a closed door and lock the
door, I mean, what is ICE supposed to do?”

Of course, there are laws for that scenario, which include getting a judicial
warrant. And if the individual poses a genuine threat or is suspected of a
violent crime, securing one should be very easy to accomplish.

But that’s the real issue for an out-of-control paramilitary whose claims of
targeting only the “worst of the worst” don’t hold any water.



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