[Ads-l] MAINE COVERED BY ICE !!

[Amy West]

On 1/23/26 00:00, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:34:20 -0500
> From:    Jonathan Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: MAINE COVERED BY ICE !!
>
> IN "OPERATION CATCH O' THE DAY" !!!
>
> AND JUST IN !!!!
>
> "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."
>
> J

This is not surprising. In the Know Your Rights trainings that I've 
taken because of my work as an ESOL teacher the difference between an 
administrative warrant, which is what ICE agents usually have, and a 
judicial warrant is hammered home. At our workplace we are trained to 
not open the door to agents unless they have a judicial warrant, and 
students are told also to not open their home doors unless there's a 
judicial warrant.

What's *new* to me is J. D. Vance talking about the 2 different warrants 
and making them equivalent, which they aren't.

And yeah, ignoring the strict guidance for warrantless searches, well, 
again, it's not surprising.

---Amy West

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