A group of former top attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by Kristi Noem, are in panic after publicly blasting ICE for secretly using executive warrants to enter people’s homes. The Homeland Security secretary last month ordered her lead attorney, General Counsel James Percival, to defend ICE’s failure to seek a judge’s warrant in a Wall Street Journal op-ed after the practice prompted whistleblower complaints and possible court action. That backfired, however, when six of the department’s former top attorneys published an unprecedented joint response in The New York Times on Monday. The group of former DHS general counsel publicly shamed Percival for his “dangerous” and “offensive” comments, claiming that “deep state actors” were to blame for ICE agents’ perceived inability to enter homes using administrative search warrants.
DHS Panics After ICE Barbie’s Fourth Amendment Assault Flamed
