Require a Judge's Warrant Before ICE Forces Its Way Into a Home

An ICE memo lets officers break into homes on a form their own agency signs.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 26, 2026.

The explainer behind this letter 4th Amendment When police need a warrant for your home, car, or phone, and what to say at the door

The Letter

Subject Require a Judge's Warrant Before ICE Forces Entry Into Any Home

The Fourth Amendment protects the home more than any other place. For decades, ICE's own policy said officers needed consent, a judge's warrant, or an emergency to go inside.

A May 12, 2025 ICE memo changed that. It tells officers they may force their way into a home using a Form I-205, a warrant signed by an immigration officer, not a judge. The public learned about it only when whistleblowers gave it to Congress in January 2026.

A warrant is supposed to be a check by someone outside the agency. When the same agency that wants to make the arrest also signs the paper, there is no check at all. The Supreme Court said in 1980 that entering a home is the "chief evil" the Fourth Amendment was written to stop.

This is not only about immigrants. Once a doorway can be broken with an agency's own form, every family's front door is less secure. Mistakes about who lives at an address happen, and a forced entry cannot be undone.

Please use your oversight and funding power to end this policy and put the rule into law: no federal agent forces entry into a home without a warrant signed by a judge, except in a real emergency.

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I'm calling about ICE's May 2025 memo that lets officers force their way into homes without a judge's warrant.
The memo lets officers use a Form I-205, which an immigration officer signs, instead of a warrant from a judge.
The Supreme Court said in 1980 that entering a home is the chief evil the Fourth Amendment guards against.
Please use your oversight and funding power to end this policy and require a judge's warrant before any federal agent forces entry into a home.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

May 12, 2025 date of the ICE memo allowing forced home entry with an administrative warrant (source)
1980 year the Supreme Court held police need a warrant to enter a home to make an arrest (Payton v. New York) (source)
January 30, 2026 date Massachusetts groups sued to block the memo in federal court (source)

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