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-- illegal entries into private homes, at times forcibly with drawn guns;
-- some with administrative warrants; others with none; often with no probable cause or consent;
-- unconstitutional searches and seizures;
-- all occupants arrested and interrogated;
-- commonplace use of excessive force; and
-- at times, individuals prevented from calling attorneys.
New York Immigration Judge Noel Brennan ruled on one case saying:
"It is hard for me to fathom a country or a place in which we live in which the Government can barge into one's house without authority from the Third Branch after a probable cause finding. So for all these reasons I find that what is essentially a warrantless search in the meaning of the Fourth Amendment....was an egregious violation, and therefore I suppress all the evidence and order these proceedings terminated."
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