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ABC News -    An Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient says that he was tackled and arrested by ICE agents in Minneapolis and held in a cell for eight hours without being allowed to contact an attorney or his family. 

New York Times - A new poll from The New York Times and Siena University found that 61 percent of voters overall said the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement had “gone too far,” including nearly one in five Republicans, as my colleagues Jennifer Medina and Ruth Igielnik reported today. Seventy-one percent of independents said the same. It is possible the backlash may grow as the Trump administration expands its immigration operations, pushing this week into Maine — a critical Senate battleground state.

New Republic -  ICE agents in Maine arrested a Black law enforcement officer, even after he repeatedly told them he was a legal immigrant. Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce confirmed to reporters Thursday that a viral cell phone video of a man being detained by ICE agents in a Portland neighborhood Wednesday was a corrections officer recruit from the county. In the video, the man can be heard shouting “What’s wrong? I’m just coming from work. What’s wrong, guys? I don’t understand this. I don’t have any violations.”

New Republic -  Federal judges in Minnesota are rejecting arrest warrants for some anti-ICE protesters because federal officials haven’t actually backed up claims that demonstrators have broken any law.

Federal immigration agents have repeatedly failed to provide sufficient evidence that demonstrators have committed crimes, such as assault, when trying to obtain warrants for arrest, two people briefed on discussions of sealed court proceedings told MS NOW Friday.

In order to obtain an arrest warrant, a federal officer is only required to show a fair probability that the suspect has engaged in criminal activity—but apparently, they’re not even doing that.

POGO - A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress and obtained by the Associated Press alleges the existence of an internal ICE memo that authorizes agents to forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant, in stunning violation of constitutional law. The Fourth Amendment puts inviolable limits on the government’s ability to break into and search your home. It enshrines the fundamental right to privacy and due process for every person in this country to prevent exactly the kind of lawless, invasive, and blatantly racist targeting we are witnessing from ICE today. Congress and the courts must intervene to determine if this memo is indeed being used to train new ICE recruits and greenlight arrests on administrative warrants alone, as the disclosure suggests, and ensure ICE is not violating constitutional rights.