Minneapolis, Minnesota — Federal immigration agents used a battering ram to force entry into a Minneapolis home during an arrest tied to the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown, raising serious Fourth Amendment concerns after video showed the officers lacked a judge-signed warrant.
The incident unfolded amid heightened tensions following the Jan. 7 fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer. Video published by the Associated Press shows masked, armed federal agents pushing through a crowd of protesters before repeatedly striking the front door of a home and entering with rifles raised. Agents later exited with a man in handcuffs, identified as Garrison Gibson.
According to reporting cited by Reason, the document used to justify the entry was an administrative immigration warrant signed by an ICE officer, not a judicial warrant signed by a judge. Legal experts note that while administrative warrants may authorize civil immigration arrests, they do not permit nonconsensual entry into a private residence.
Gibson’s attorney, Marc Prokosch, filed a habeas corpus petition seeking his release, calling the raid an “egregious violation of the Fourth Amendment,” particularly because a child was inside the home at the time. Fox 9 reported that the family demanded proof of a valid judicial warrant, which agents did not provide.
The Department of Homeland Security declined to comment directly on the tactics used. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told the Associated Press the arrest was part of efforts to detain “the worst of the worst,” citing Gibson’s prior deportation order and criminal history. Constitutional protections, however, apply regardless of immigration status, and legal scholars emphasized that exceptions to the warrant requirement rarely apply in civil immigration cases.
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