The Department of Homeland Security is reportedly rolling back some of the leeway the Trump administration had given federal immigration authorities in an effort to make arresting illegal immigrants easier.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations arm has notified offices nationwide not to enter homes when attempting to make an immigration arrest unless officers have a judicial warrant, according to a new report by NBC News.
The move comes following months of ICE and other federal personnel going into the residences of individuals believed to be illegally present in the country who already had a judge’s signed order of removal, as law enforcement carries out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation operation.
ICE also appears to be cutting down its presence in immigration courts, where, under Trump, officers have been allowed to stake out and apprehend people as they showed up for their day in immigration court.
NBC found that immigration
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