ICE Settles Suit with 22 New Yorkers for $1 Million over Warrantless Search
Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
More than 20 New Yorkers will receive a combined $1 million in a settlement with ICE over warrantless raids on their homes, WNYC reports.
Under the settlement, ICE also must change some of its policies and training involving searches.
“Sleeping while Latino is not a suspicious activity that justifies ICE’s forcing its way into homes and terrorizing families at gunpoint,” Ghita Schwarz, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, said. “Our brave clients have shown ICE agents that they are subject to the same constitutional restrictions as any other law enforcement officer; they need judicial warrants or valid consent to enter a home.”
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Posted: 4/5/13 at 11:51 AM under FBI, News Story.
Tags: civil rights, ICE, warrantless searches
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