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Historically, warrantless subpoenas under these laws were used as a narrow investigative tool for specific customs and regulatory violations, not as a weapon to tear away the privacy and protected speech of social media users.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2026

In a memo made public earlier this month, ICE authorised its agents to make warrantless searches.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

A 1990 ruling held that the Fourth Amendment didn’t protect a Mexican national against a warrantless search of his home—but that was entirely because his home was located in Mexico, not Minnesota.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Instead, it argues that immigration officers are violating a federal statute that permits a warrantless arrest only when agents have “reason to believe,” supported by particularized evidence, that an individual is in the country unlawfully.

From Slate • Oct. 1, 2025

The officer who has suffered from a warrantless disgrace—which he cannot disprove—is hardly the judge to condemn another similarly charged.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville