Summary
The article discusses recent confrontations between ICE agents and Minneapolis residents, highlighting legal questions about what ICE can do when stopping or detaining people. Legal experts explain that while immigration agents have the authority to arrest and detain, everyone is protected by the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Key Facts
- ICE agents have been stopping, questioning, and detaining residents in Minneapolis.
- An incident involved ICE agents escorting a U.S. citizen outside his home in freezing weather.
- The Fourth Amendment protects everyone, including suspected undocumented immigrants, from unreasonable searches.
- ICE needs "reasonable suspicion" to briefly detain someone, which means having a sound reason to suspect someone may have violated the law.
- "Probable cause," a stronger level of evidence, is required to make an arrest.
- Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ruled that race could be a factor, along with others, in determining reasonable suspicion.
- The law distinguishes between encounters in public spaces and private homes.
- The Supreme Court has historically ruled that racial profiling is unconstitutional.
