DHS Panics After ICE Barbie’s Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed

Kristi Noem’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) went into panic mode after a group of former top attorneys publicly condemned ICE’s covert use of executive warrants to enter people’s homes. After the practice triggered whistleblower complaints and a possible court fight, the Secretary of Homeland Security last month ordered his top lawyer, General Counsel James Percival, to defend ICE’s failure to seek a judge’s warrant in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. But that backfired when six of the department’s former top lawyers wrote an unprecedented joint response in The New York Times on Monday. The group of former DHS general counsels publicly shamed Percival for his “dangerous” and “offensive” comment claiming that “deep state actors” were responsible for ICE agents thinking they couldn’t use administrative warrants to enter homes.