U.S. ICE/ERO Claims That Agents Don't Need A Judicial Warrant Under 287 To Arrest Undocumented Immigrants In A Public Setting For A Civil Immigration Violation

The Field Office Directors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) released a statement to the American public claiming that its agent don't need a judicial warrant to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants in public under the 287 Act for a civil immigration violation.

By H. Nelson Goodson

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

September 15, 2019

Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, September 12, 2019, the Field Office Directors, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) released a statement to the American public claiming that its agent don't need a judicial warrant to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants in public under the 287 of the Immigration and Nationality Act for a civil immigration violation. "In fact, no judge in this country has the authority to issue a warrant for a civil immigration violation. Congress, by statute, vested this authorization solely to supervisory immigration officers. Local police officers don't need a warrant when they encounter someone breaking the law in a public space, and the same holds true for ICE officers," according to the ICE/ERO statement.

ICE/ERO also claims that they don't "conduct raids or sweeps and does not operate roadblocks or checkpoints".

On the contrary, ICE agents today are considered among the most corrupt agents in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which rogue agents have violated the Constitutional rights of U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants in many documented cases, YouTube posted videos and court filings around in the U.S. ICE agents have entered homes and buildings without warrants and a U.S. Border and Customs Protection agent has allegedly committed a murder in May 2018 without any accountability nor facing any prosecution for a homicide.

ICE agents have even used administrative warrants and detainers to detain undocumented immigrants, which have been ruled by federal courts as not legal binding. Only a warrant signed by a judicial judge is legal binding to arrest and detain a suspected undocumented immigrant.

Also, ICE agents have been caught on video breaking into a vehicle to arrest a suspected undocumented immigrant without a warrant, which is considered an illegal act, if the person inside the vehicle prohibits ICE agents without a judicial warrant to enter or search a vehicle.

In May 2019, the ACLU-TX filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Border Customs Laredo Sector including Border Patrol Agent Romualdo Barrera who has not been officially named, but has been identified as the agent that fatally shot Guatemalan immigrant Claudia Patricia Gómez González, 20, after crossing the border into the U.S. at the Rio Bravo vicinity on May 23, 2018. The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU-TX on behalf of Gilberto Gómez Vicente and Lidia González Vasquez, the parents of deceased Claudia Patricia Gómez González claiming $100M in damages. In the lawsuit filed by ACLU-TX and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, they claimed that Gómez González posed no threat to Border Patrol Agent Barrera and she was not carrying any type of weapon or anything that would be perceived as a weapon.

Here are some cases involving U.S. ICE and Customs agents and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents committing illegal acts, making false statements, illegal entry into private property without a warrant, coercion and forcing deportation while inside a Peruvian Consulate and etc. without any Congressional oversight. https://bit.ly/2lV51yo