Immigration Officers Assert Sweeping Power to Enter Homes Without a Judge’s Warrant, Memo Says
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. The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force to enter a residence based solely on a more narrow administrative warrant to arrest someone with a final order of removal, a move that advocates say collides with Fourth Amendment protections and upends years of advice given to immigrant communities.
How the Criminal Justice System Decides Who Lives and Who Dies
The current way of determining who is deserving of mercy emerged out of a moment in the United States where the death penalty effectively didn’t exist: a four-year period from 1972 to 1976. The hiatus was caused by the United States Supreme Court’s decision in a collection of cases commonly referred to as Furman v. Georgia. In an effort to construct a system of law that could prevent arbitrary outcomes, the court ended up making room for plenty of arbitrariness in who was allowed to live and who was sentenced to die.
‘A Grenade Under Her Pillow?’: The Filipino Journalist Jailed for Six Years Without Trial
For weeks before the police came for her, Frenchie Mae Cumpio had noticed odd incidents. The Filipino journalist – just 21 years old but already hosting a radio show and working as executive director of a local news website – told colleagues that a stranger had begun turning up and asking after her at the boarding house where she lived. She was sent a bouquet of flowers designed for a grave. She reported that two men had been following her on a motorcycle. Cumpio believed it was deliberate intimidation. She had recently published a series of reports after visiting poor rural farmers who said they were being harassed by army units in the region.
‘60 Minutes’ Airs Delayed El Salvador Prison Segment, With Some Additions
A “60 Minutes” segment that was held in December by CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss aired Sunday, the core of the piece remaining untouched but with new material bookending it. Weiss’s decision to delay the segment on a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, including alleged gang members, ignited a political firestorm in recent weeks that played out inside CBS News and spilled into public view.