ICE Memo: Agents Have Power To Enter Homes Without Judge’s Warrant

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:19.0	Tonight, the ice crackdown intensifies. You've got a new state now targeted as a questionable new
0:25.0	memo tries to get federal agents significant powers to enter homes plus breaking news a jury
0:31.7	acquits the former evaldi police officer accused of failing to act why why the break is going to have consequences far beyond Texas.
0:40.3	And you know, Trump calls it deal-making.
0:42.3	His critics call it caving.
0:43.3	Is the president's Greenland Gambit finally over,
0:46.3	or just taking a pause?
0:48.3	Tonight on Laura Coates Live.
1:02.3	We have new evidence tonight that the ice crackdown in America is quickly expanding with some questionable tactics, questionable investigations, and as you're about to find out, questionable
1:07.6	legal justifications. And while Minneapolis, yes, has been the epicenter, the administration
1:14.0	tonight is surging ICE agents into a new target, Maine. The administration is calling it Operation
1:21.9	Catch of the Day. Yes, just like Catch and Release, these dehumanizing fishing analogies continue.
1:29.0	One city councilor in Portland, Maine is calling it something else.
1:34.1	I want to be really clear.
1:36.2	This is a war of terror that's being waged on our city by the federal government.
1:42.6	We've seen people of all ages getting thrown on the ground and getting thrown into trucks.
1:49.0	Maine's governor says the federal government is only sowing intimidation and fear.
1:54.0	And if that sounds familiar, well it should.
1:57.0	Because it's happening in Minneapolis could be a preview of what happens in Maine.
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