From Breitbart: Senate Democrats are using the uproar over the Antifa-style resistance in Minneapolis to push a bureaucratic amnesty into the pending legislation that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Multiple GOP Senators are walking in lockstep with Democrats by urging President Donald Trump to deport only violent migrants. The “criminal migrant” plan would allow business donors to sideline millions of Americans while hiring millions of non-violent, low-wage, illegal-migrant workers.
Politico reported that Democrats will refuse to fund the agency’s annual bill unless the GOP agrees to cripple ICE enforcement with a series of bureaucratic curbs on deportations:
Those include requiring judicial [judge-signed] warrants for immigration arrests, overruling a recently disclosed ICE memo asserting they are not required. Other potential Democratic amendments would mandate federal agents identify themselves, require DHS to cooperate with state and local investigations and limit the “mission creep of federal agencies.”
Fox News reporter Bill Melugin expounded on the Democrats’ plan. He wrote:
If reports are true that Dems are demanding judicial warrants for all ICE arrests as part of DHS funding bill, that will take a massive amount of targets off the board for ICE. They would only be able to go after illegal immigrants who have committed a new *federal* crime *after* entering the U.S. illegally.
State & local crimes would not apply. (Feds don’t enforce state & local).
For instance, if an illegal immigrant gets arrested in Minnesota for a DUI crash causing great bodily injury (state crime) and bonds out of jail, ICE would not be able to target him for arrest because there would be no judicial warrant (not a federal crime).
ICE would not be able to target anyone for just being in the U.S. illegally. They would have to wait for a federal crime to be committed, then a federal judge would have to sign off on probable cause for arrest.
It would cripple any hopes of “mass deportations” or widespread immigration enforcement.
Warrants are *not* required for ICE arrests under US law right now. They simply need probable cause that the target is detainable/deportable on immigration grounds and use I-200 and I-205 civil administrative warrants.
The most common judicial warrants ICE uses to target aliens right now is for illegal re-entry (8 USC 1326), a federal felony when a deported alien has re-entered the U.S. after deportation. But again, that is a limited population as most non-citizens haven’t been deported before.
ICE *does* need a judicial warrant to enter homes. Their administrative warrants do not allow them to enter private property. That’s why we often see them waiting for a target to go to or from work when they’re in public.
One ICE contact in a sanctuary city tells me: “If we need a judicial warrant for every arrest, we would maybe have 15 arrests in a year.” (In his city).
Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, warned, “The demand for judicial warrants is a poison pill. It would effectively provide amnesty to illegal immigrants who have not committed a federal felony.”
The demand for judicial warrants is a poison pill. It would effectively provide amnesty to illegal immigrants who have not committed a federal felony. https://t.co/T7x5hghzLc
— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) January 28, 2026
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