Alan Raul in Bloomberg Law on ICE Raids and the Fourth Amendment

Our Board President, Alan Raul, was in Bloomberg Law arguing that ICE’s recent aggressive enforcement tactics violate the Fourth Amendment and the intent of the American Founders.

Joe Rogan was onto something about America when he decried the federal government’s immigration enforcement tactics on his popular podcast.

“Are we really gonna be the Gestapo,” he asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”

Rogan’s reaction to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive approach in confronting citizens and non-citizens in places such as Minneapolis likely would have been shared by our Founders. Among its list of grievances, the Declaration of Independence indicts King George III for sending “hither swarms of Officers to harass our people.”

The Founders addressed this with the creation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable government searches and guarantees “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.”

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