Ben Shapiro

And when it comes to immigration enforcement, Supreme Court precedent suggests that administrative warrants issued by the attorney general rather than a judge could be utilized to arrest people pending deportation.

And that was codified in the Immigration and Nationality Act, actually.

Now, there are restrictions on it, like you're not supposed to enter a private home without consent.

But again, the DHS has now said, well, maybe that changes because the final order of removal has already been signed.

So the person's already had due process.

It's not a matter of there has to be another judicial hearing in order to remove them.

They already have a final order pending removal.

And so once that order is already done, they've had their due process.

And now it's just a question of executing the order.

All of that will end up litigated in court.

But to pretend that there is no legal basis whatsoever for what DHS and ICE are doing, that seems wrong.

According to the Wall Street Journal, DHS and ICE officials have not publicized or broadly distributed the legal decision because they felt it would invite legal scrutiny.

Immigration lawyers and advocates from Minnesota have documented cases of agents breaking down people's doors to arrest them without a warrant.

But again, in some of these cases, you're talking about people who have overstayed their visas by legitimately 20 years.

The most prominent case concerned a Minnesota man born in Liberia whose Fourth Amendment right was violated by ICE officers when they broke down his door without his consent and without a judicial warrant.

He was issued a deportation order in 2009.

He was allowed to remain in the U.S.

under ICE supervision.

His most recent check-in with ICE was December 29th, 2025.

And on January 11th, immigration officers forced their way into his home and took him into custody.