Ben Shapiro

a consent agreement between the federal government and various judiciary bodies, the Flores Agreement going back decades, that suggested that you could not hold a child and parent together in custody when they crossed the border.

And so children were released into the interior of the country.

And this caused the Biden administration, among other administrations, to release the parents as well to reunify the family.

Well, now the idea is that you can't deport anyone because they might have children.

And so you can't reunify the family, even if the father wants to be with the kid.

And then you get blamed if the father takes off when you hold the kid and the parent together.

What exactly are immigration agents supposed to do?

This, of course, makes everything unworkable, which I believe is the point.

Now, some of this is part and parcel of a new ICE policy that suggests that there does not need to be a judge signed warrant in order to enter the home.

Again, you heard that mentioned in the story from the New York Times, that ICE agents are showing up at homes and based on administrative warrants, they're entering homes and they are looking for illegal immigrants.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is asserting new powers to forcibly enter the homes of people they are hoping to arrest without a criminal warrant signed by a judge.

Over the summer, lawyers at ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, penned a secret memo expanding the authority by which agents may enter homes of immigrants with final deportation orders, the people said.

Now, what's happening here?

What they're saying is that is effectively a judge-signed warrant.

Or at least it's very similar.

You have a deportation order.

It has been signed by a judge, a final deportation order.

And now they're using that as the predicate for the warrant.

It is a civil warrant, not a criminal warrant.

That is the basic argument that is being made.